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

Words - as I speak or write them - make a path on which I walk.

- 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

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

- Diane Glancy

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

- Diane Glancy

Poetry examines an emotional truth. It's an experience filtered through the personality of the poet. We look to poetry for visions, not scientific tr…

- 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

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