Susan Howe Quotes

The biographer's problem is that he never knows enough. The autobiographer's problem is that he knows too much. — Russell Baker

Whose order is shut inside the structure of a sentence? — Susan Howe

Originality is the discovery of how to shed identity before the magic mirror of Antiquity's sovereign power. — Susan Howe

I often think of the space of a page as a stage, with words, letters, syllable characters moving across. — Susan Howe

There's a level at which words are spirit and paper is skin. That's the fascination of archives. There's still a bodily trace. — Susan Howe

I cry all the time. Music makes me cry. — CeeLo Green

It was late January in Draper, Utah, and as picturesque as the snow on the mountains was, it did not mix well with our modern lifestyle. — Mette Ivie Harrison

If history is a record of survivors, Poetry shelters other voices. — Susan Howe

When the anointing of God is upon a person, it changes that individual from being a little ordinary person into being a giant. — Sunday Adelaja

A poem is an invocation, rebellious return to the blessedness of beginning again, wandering free in pure process of forgetting and finding. — Susan Howe

Statistics were magic like this: they could tell you with near-certainty that a thing would occur, without a hint of when or where. — Hugh Howey

Soundwaves. It's the difference between one stillness and another stillness. — Susan Howe