Susan Howe Quotes

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Susan Howe is a renowned American poet, born on June 10, 1937. Her poetry is known for its unique narrative style and profound cultural depth, encompassing a wide range of subjects including history, literature, and philosophy.

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Famous Susan Howe Quotes

“When writing personal letters I have sometimes gone too far. Maybe belief and trust in another’s love is an obsessional desire to control a wayward eyewitness. I could go on and on about the origins of transference via H. D. and The Sword Went Out to Sea but a foreword is a like a fish tank so there isn’t room here for leaping dolphins, solo séances, hallucinatory visions, dead pilots, the atomic bomb, nervous breakdowns, the Küsnacht clinic March–November 1946. Sigh sough rough wind world war.”

Poetry Modernist

Book:Debths

Source: Debths

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

Ifs Poetry Literature Voice Records Survivor Shelter

Book:The Birth-mark: Unsettling the Wilderness in American Literary History

Source: The Birth-mark: Unsettling the Wilderness in American Literary History

About the Author

Born: June 10, 1937
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 9

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