Far more frightening than the thought of dying was the experience of erasure already occurring in my life. My fear of becoming someone who did not co…

- Susan Griffin

we are nature. We are nature seeing nature. We are nature with a concept of nature. Nature weeping. Nature speaking of nature to nature.

- Susan Griffin

Each time I write, each time the authentic words break through, I am changed. The older order that I was collapses and dies. I lose control. I do not…

- Susan Griffin

Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.

- Susan Griffin

But still, the other voice, the intuitive, returns, like grass forcing its way through concrete.

- Susan Griffin

Every time I deny myself I commit a kind of suicide.

- Susan Griffin

Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, yo…

- Susan Griffin

We keep secrets from ourselves that all along we know.

- Susan Griffin

Even in the grimmest of circumstances, a shift in perspective can create startling change.

- Susan Griffin