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Fanny Howe Quotes

Doubt is what allows a single gesture to have a heart.

Doubt is what allows a single gesture to have a heart.

Fanny Howe
Heart, Doubt, Gestures
Fanny Howe (2003). “Gone: Poems”, p.25, Univ of California Press

If this world isn't good enough for us then an afterlife won't be enough.

Fanny Howe
Afterlife, World, Good Enough
Fanny Howe (2000). “Selected poems”

We have often had this particular exchange about climate and landscape and why we both feel so lonely here uprooted. It was what each of us had wanted of course.Besides wanting to experience a place we hated, we wanted to be insomniacs and loners, losers and drop-outs. To know the sky was the only location of meaning and joy left to us.

Fanny Howe
Lonely, Sky, Joy
Fanny Howe (2000). “Indivisible”, Semiotext

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