Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Lorine Niedecker

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American poet Lorine Niedecker.
Last updated on December 19, 2024.
Lorine Niedecker

Lorine Faith Niedecker was an American poet. Niedecker's poetry is known for its spareness, its focus on the natural landscapes of Wisconsin and the Upper Midwest, its philosophical materialism, its mise-en-page experimentation, and its surrealism. She is regarded as a major figure in the history of American regional poetry, the Objectivist poetic movement, and the mid-20th-century American poetic avant-garde.

Grandfather / advised me: / Learn a trade / I learned / to sit at desk / and condense / No layoff / from this / condensery.
Popcorn-can cover / screwed to the wall / over a hole / so the cold / can't mouse in.
Strange—we are always inhabiting more than one realm of existence—but they all fit in if the art is right. — © Lorine Niedecker
Strange—we are always inhabiting more than one realm of existence—but they all fit in if the art is right.
I rose from marsh mud algae, equisetum, willows, sweet green, noisy birds and frogs.
What would they say if they knew I sit for two months on six lines of poetry?
Smile / to see the lake / lay / the still sky / And / out for an easy / make / the dragonfly.
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