If there is anything I love most, in the poems I love, it is the audible braiding of that bravery, that essential empty-handedness, and that willingness to be taken by surprise, all in one voice.
What poetry can, must, and will always do for us: it complicates us, it doesn’t ‘soothe.’ - Jorie Graham
What poetry can, must, and will always do for us: it complicates us, it doesn’t ‘soothe.’
- Jorie Graham
The storm: I close my eyes and, standing in it, try to make it mine. - Jorie Graham
The storm: I close my eyes and, standing in it, try to make it mine.
I think I am probably in love with silence, that other world. And that I write, in some way, to negotiate seriously with it . Because there is, of co… - Jorie Graham
I think I am probably in love with silence, that other world. And that I write, in some way, to negotiate seriously with it . Because there is, of co…
Water is a miracle - it takes so many forms - is the core of life - is holy. So it becomes important to pay utmost attention to the holiness which is… - Jorie Graham
Water is a miracle - it takes so many forms - is the core of life - is holy. So it becomes important to pay utmost attention to the holiness which is…
I wanted to pack a lot into the lyric, but not go beyond its bounds. Some have written that I wanted to expand what the lyric could do. I just want t… - Jorie Graham
I wanted to pack a lot into the lyric, but not go beyond its bounds. Some have written that I wanted to expand what the lyric could do. I just want t…
I think I am probably in love with silence, that other world. And that I write, in some way, to negotiate seriously with it. - Jorie Graham
I think I am probably in love with silence, that other world. And that I write, in some way, to negotiate seriously with it.
It's very hard to look in a mirror and see anything which resembles what one feels one's self to be. I think that discomfort, that dislocation, disin… - Jorie Graham
It's very hard to look in a mirror and see anything which resembles what one feels one's self to be. I think that discomfort, that dislocation, disin…
There are moments in our lives which, threaded, give us heaven— - Jorie Graham
There are moments in our lives which, threaded, give us heaven—
We have to find a way to not refuse to see where we are, what we are doing, and yet we must still live. And making sure to live - to go through life … - Jorie Graham
We have to find a way to not refuse to see where we are, what we are doing, and yet we must still live. And making sure to live - to go through life …
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