We tell each other stories to help each other live. Thatโs why I read poetry. I read poetry to stay alive. Thatโs why I went to poetry in the first place, thatโs why I stay with it, thatโs why Iโll never leave it.
Marie HoweEvery poem holds the unspeakable inside it. The unsayable... The thing that you can't really say because it's too complicated. It's too complex for us. Every poem has that silence deep in the center of it.
Marie HoweBedeviled, human, your plight, in waking, is to choose from the words that even now sleep on your tongue, and to know that tangled among them and terribly new is the sentence that could change your life.
Marie Howe