Marie Howe, born in 1950, is an accomplished American poet. Her works are known for their deep emotion and keen observations of everyday life, earning her a dedicated following.
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Source: The Kingdom of Ordinary Time: Poems
“The soul has a story that has a shape that almost no one sees. No, no one ever does.”
Source: The Kingdom of Ordinary Time: Poems
“To resist metaphor is very difficult because you have to actually endure the thing itself.”
Source: The Kingdom of Ordinary Time: Poems
“This is the life you have written, the novel tells us. What happens next?”
Source: The Kingdom of Ordinary Time: Poems
“I am living. I remember you.”
Source: What the Living Do: Poems
“A traitor commits his crime but once. The rest/is retribution.”
“Poetry holds the knowledge that we are alive and that we know we're going to die.”