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 HoweWhen 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 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