Best 6 quotes of Lorine Niedecker on MyQuotes

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.

Smile / to see the lake / lay / the still sky / And / out for an easy / make / the dragonfly.

Strange—we are always inhabiting more than one realm of existence—but they all fit in if the art is right.

What would they say if they knew I sit for two months on six lines of poetry?

I was the solitary plover a pencil for a wing-bone From the secret notes I must tilt upon the pressure execute and adjust In us sea-air rhythm "We live by the urgent wave of the verse