When you're a young poet, reading is a search for your lost family.
To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life. - Gregory Orr
To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.
- Gregory Orr
Every breath is a resurrection. - Gregory Orr
Every breath is a resurrection.
No one can threaten poetry. It's always been there, always will be. Humans need it to live: it has sustaining powers. How could we (anyone) get throu… - Gregory Orr
No one can threaten poetry. It's always been there, always will be. Humans need it to live: it has sustaining powers. How could we (anyone) get throu…
Poetry is the thread that leads us out of the labyrinth of despair and into the light. - Gregory Orr
Poetry is the thread that leads us out of the labyrinth of despair and into the light.
That's crudely put, but If we're not supposed to dance, Why all this music? - Gregory Orr
That's crudely put, but If we're not supposed to dance, Why all this music?
When it's right you can't say Who is kissing whom. - Gregory Orr
When it's right you can't say Who is kissing whom.
I want language to help us live in a world of wonder/terror/change. I want it to be about "becoming" rather than "being." I think that being and noun… - Gregory Orr
I want language to help us live in a world of wonder/terror/change. I want it to be about "becoming" rather than "being." I think that being and noun…
When you're a young poet, reading is a search for your lost family. - Gregory Orr
Speaking of people I had to exclude: Hank Williams. which is to say, songs are part of lyric poetry in my book, my thinking. In fact they are the urg… - Gregory Orr
Speaking of people I had to exclude: Hank Williams. which is to say, songs are part of lyric poetry in my book, my thinking. In fact they are the urg…
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