What poetry can, must, and will always do for us: it complicates us, it doesn’t ‘soothe.’

- 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…

- 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…

- 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…

- Jorie Graham

The storm: I close my eyes and, standing in it, try to make it mine.

- 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.

- 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 …

- Jorie Graham

There are moments in our lives which, threaded, give us heaven—

- 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…

- Jorie Graham