Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold.

- Diane Glancy

Poetry saves what is human in this world going gaudy & insane. In exploring small truths, something larger might turn up, adding dimension, insight, …

- Diane Glancy

Who thinks of justice unless he knows injustice?

- Diane Glancy

It is easier to gnaw through bone. Than the hide of the heart.

- Diane Glancy

I try. I am trying. I was trying. I will try. I shall in the meantime try. I sometimes have tried. I shall still by that time be trying.

- Diane Glancy

20th century poetry is a piñata. Images break from the earth when the poet strikes it.

- Diane Glancy

Who creates unless he has a vacuum to fill?

- Diane Glancy

Poetry is road maintenance for a fragmented world which seeks to be kept together. It's been an integral activity for a long time.

- Diane Glancy

The word is important in Native American tradition. You speak the path on which you walk. Your words make the trail.

- Diane Glancy