Susan Howe Quotes

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

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

Soundwaves. It’s the difference between one stillness and another stillness.

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

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.

Whose order is shut inside the structure of a sentence?