Lorine Niedecker Quotes

Strange—we are always inhabiting more than one realm of existence—but they all fit in if the art is right.

Smile / to see the lake / lay / the still sky / And / out for an easy / make / the dragonfly.

I rose from marsh mud algae, equisetum, willows, sweet green, noisy birds and frogs.

What would they say if they knew I sit for two months on six lines of poetry?

Popcorn-can cover / screwed to the wall / over a hole / so the cold / can't mouse in.

Grandfather / advised me: / Learn a trade / I learned / to sit at desk / and condense / No layoff / from this / condensery.

I was the solitary plovera pencil for a wing-boneFrom the secret notesI must tiltupon the pressureexecute and adjust In us sea-air rhythm"We live by the urgent waveof the verse

I rose from marsh mudalgae, equisetum, willows, sweet green, noisybirds and frogs.