Top 15 Marie Howe Quotes (2024 Update)

Marie Howe Quote: “Memory is a poet, not an historian.”

1. “Memory is a poet, not an historian.”

Marie Howe Quote: “When we think we have something to say we are usually wrong. We are fooling ourselves. Trip into discovery. Don’t write what you know, discover something new.”

2. “When we think we have something to say we are usually wrong. We are fooling ourselves. Trip into discovery. Don’t write what you know, discover something new.”

Marie Howe Quote: “But there are moments, walking, when I catch a glimpse of myself in the window glass, say, the window of the corner video store, and I’m gripped by a cherishing so deep for my own blowing hair, chapped face, and unbuttoned coat that I’m speechless: I am living. I remember you.”

3. “But there are moments, walking, when I catch a glimpse of myself in the window glass, say, the window of the corner video store, and I’m gripped by a cherishing so deep for my own blowing hair, chapped face, and unbuttoned coat that I’m speechless: I am living. I remember you.”

Marie Howe Quote: “This is what the living do.”

4. “This is what the living do.”

Marie Howe Quote: “I am living. I remember you.”

5. “I am living. I remember you.”

Marie Howe Quote: “Soon I will die, he said, and then what everyone has been so afraid of for so long will have finally happened, and then everyone can rest.”

6. “Soon I will die, he said, and then what everyone has been so afraid of for so long will have finally happened, and then everyone can rest.”

Marie Howe Quote: “Someone hanging clothes on a line between buildings, someone shaking out a rug from an open window might have heard hammering, one or two blocks away and thought little or nothing of it.”

7. “Someone hanging clothes on a line between buildings, someone shaking out a rug from an open window might have heard hammering, one or two blocks away and thought little or nothing of it.”

Marie Howe Quote: “We tell each other stories to help each other live. That’s why I read poetry. I read poetry to stay alive. That’s why I went to poetry in the first place, that’s why I stay with it, that’s why I’ll never leave it.”

8. “We tell each other stories to help each other live. That’s why I read poetry. I read poetry to stay alive. That’s why I went to poetry in the first place, that’s why I stay with it, that’s why I’ll never leave it.”

Marie Howe Quote: “Anything I’ve ever tried to keep by force I’ve lost.”

9. “Anything I’ve ever tried to keep by force I’ve lost.”

Marie Howe Quote: “I called her name into the fold between night and day.”

10. “I called her name into the fold between night and day.”

Marie Howe Quote: “Poetry is telling something to someone.”

11. “Poetry is telling something to someone.”

Marie Howe Quote: “Sometimes I open a book that’s so beautiful I have to shut it because it hurts me. I can’t stand it. It’s like, Oh no! Oh no! Oh no! This is going to drive me into my own heart. A day or two days later I’m saying, All right, and I just surrender to it: Do it to me. Go ahead. I want it. I don’t want it. I want it. I don’t want it.”

12. “Sometimes I open a book that’s so beautiful I have to shut it because it hurts me. I can’t stand it. It’s like, Oh no! Oh no! Oh no! This is going to drive me into my own heart. A day or two days later I’m saying, All right, and I just surrender to it: Do it to me. Go ahead. I want it. I don’t want it. I want it. I don’t want it.”

Marie Howe Quote: “If I stopped dyeing my hair everyone would know that my golden hair is actually gray, and my long American youth would be over – and then what?”

13. “If I stopped dyeing my hair everyone would know that my golden hair is actually gray, and my long American youth would be over – and then what?”

Marie Howe Quote: “What happened in our house taught my brothers how to leave, how to walk down a sidewalk without looking back.”

14. “What happened in our house taught my brothers how to leave, how to walk down a sidewalk without looking back.”

Marie Howe Quote: “To resist metaphor is very difficult because you have to actually endure the thing itself.”

15. “To resist metaphor is very difficult because you have to actually endure the thing itself.”

Marie Howe Quote: “Sometimes I prayed so hard for God to materialize at the foot of my bed it would start to happen; then I’d beg it to stop, and it would.”

16. “Sometimes I prayed so hard for God to materialize at the foot of my bed it would start to happen; then I’d beg it to stop, and it would.”

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