Diane Glancy quotes
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“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 GlancySource : Diane Glancy at the 23rd Annual University of North Dakota Writers Conference, digital.undwritersconference.org. March 19, 1992.
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“It is easier to gnaw through bone. Than the hide of the heart.”
-- Diane GlancySource : Diane Glancy (1991). “Lone Dog's Winter Count”
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“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 GlancySource : Diane Glancy (1996). “Claiming Breath”, p.28, U of Nebraska Press
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“Poetry examines an emotional truth. It's an experience filtered through the personality of the poet. We look to poetry for visions, not scientific truths. The poet's job is to combine new elements. Explore their melting, seeping into one another.”
-- Diane GlancySource : Diane Glancy (1996). “Claiming Breath”, p.83, U of Nebraska Press
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“Poetry saves what is human in this world going gaudy & insane. In exploring small truths, something larger might turn up, adding dimension, insight, vision, recognition to our lives. We just might be more complete, more aware after a poem.”
-- Diane GlancySource : Diane Glancy (1996). “Claiming Breath”, p.83, U of Nebraska Press
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“20th century poetry is a piñata. Images break from the earth when the poet strikes it.”
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“Who thinks of justice unless he knows injustice?”
-- Diane GlancySource : Diane Glancy (1991). “Lone Dog's Winter Count”
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“The word is important in Native American tradition. You speak the path on which you walk. Your words make the trail.”
-- Diane GlancySource : Diane Glancy (1996). “Claiming Breath”, p.4, U of Nebraska Press
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“Who creates unless he has a vacuum to fill?”
-- Diane GlancySource : Diane Glancy (1991). “Lone Dog's Winter Count”
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“Writing is the hammer & chisel that breaks down the established way of thinking. A concrete event, then an abstraction. An image, then a thought. Finally, writing builds another establishment with the fragments.”
-- Diane GlancySource : Diane Glancy (1996). “Claiming Breath”, p.23, U of Nebraska Press
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“Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold.”
-- Diane GlancySource : Diane Glancy (1996). “Claiming Breath”, p.75, U of Nebraska Press
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