Gregory Orr quotes
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“I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions, and traumatic events that come with being alive.”
-- Gregory OrrSource : "The Making of Poems" by Gregory Orr, www.npr.org. February 20, 2006.
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“To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.”
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“When you're a young poet, reading is a search for your lost family.”
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“When it's right you can't say Who is kissing whom.”
-- Gregory OrrSource : Gregory Orr (2013). “Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved”, p.29, Copper Canyon Press
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“Every breath is a resurrection.”
-- Gregory OrrSource : Gregory Orr (2013). “Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved”, p.12, Copper Canyon Press
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“That's crudely put, but If we're not supposed to dance, Why all this music?”
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“To guide someone through the halls of hell is not the same as love.”
-- Gregory OrrSource : Gregory Orr (2013). “Orpheus & Eurydice: A Lyric Sequence”, p.22, Copper Canyon Press
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“Poetry is the thread that leads us out of the labyrinth of despair and into the light.”
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“Beauty is like life itself: a dawn mist the sun burns off. It gives no peace, no rest.”
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“Whenever I read a poem that moves me, I know I'm not alone in the world. I feel a connection to the person who wrote it, knowing that he or she has gone through something similar to what I've experienced, or felt something like what I have felt. And their poem gives me hope and courage, because I know that they survived, that their life force was strong enough to turn experience into words and shape it into meaning and then bring it toward me to share.”
-- Gregory Orr
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