“Know amazedly how often one takes his madness into his own hands and keeps it.”
Source: Collected Works
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Famous Lorine Niedecker Quotes
“Smile / to see the lake / lay / the still sky / And / out for an easy / make / the dragonfly.”
Source: Collected Works
Source: Collected Works
“Popcorn-can cover / screwed to the wall / over a hole / so the cold / can't mouse in.”
Source: Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works
“I rose from marsh mud algae, equisetum, willows, sweet green, noisy birds and frogs.”
Source: Collected Works
“What would they say if they knew I sit for two months on six lines of poetry?”
Source: Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works
Source: Lake Superior