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> [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 this planet's life - blood, which we are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorie-graham/water-is-a-miracle-it-takes-so-many-forms-is-the-core-of-life-is-holy/)

[Jorie Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorie-graham/)

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## More by Jorie Graham

> [The way things work / is that eventually / something catches.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorie-graham/the-way-things-work-is-that-eventually-something-catches/)

[Jorie Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorie-graham/)

> [Brilliant, hard-earned and honest. The erasures and reappearances of figure and ground-that hard drama-have rarely been so movingly undertaken. A heartbreakingly beautiful work.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorie-graham/brilliant-hard-earned-and-honest-the-erasures-and-reappearances-of/)

[Jorie Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorie-graham/it-s-very-hard-to-look-in-a-mirror-and-see-anything-which-resembles/)

[Jorie Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorie-graham/)

> [“the feeling of being a digression not the link in the argument, a new direction, an offshoot, the limb going on elsewhere, and liking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorie-graham/the-feeling-of-being-a-digression-not-the-link-in-the-argument-a-new/)

[Jorie Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorie-graham/)

> [“This is freedom. This is the face of faith, nobody gets what they want. Never again are you the same. The longing is to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorie-graham/this-is-freedom-this-is-the-face-of-faith-nobody-gets-what-they-want/)

[Jorie Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorie-graham/we-have-to-find-a-way-to-not-refuse-to-see-where-we-are-what-we-are/)

[Jorie Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorie-graham/)

> [“Touch pain with great curiosity.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorie-graham/touch-pain-with-great-curiosity/)

[Jorie Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorie-graham/)

> [“...love / is turning out the lights when others do, a curfew we / would take / for sails.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorie-graham/love-is-turning-out-the-lights-when-others-do-a-curfew-we-would-take/)

[Jorie Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorie-graham/i-wanted-to-pack-a-lot-into-the-lyric-but-not-go-beyond-its-bounds/)

[Jorie Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorie-graham/)

> [These are crystalline - oftentimes incandescent - translations of Juarroz's powerful metaphysical poems where eternity and silence jut up against a world where “writing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorie-graham/these-are-crystalline-oftentimes-incandescent-translations-of-juarroz/)

[Jorie Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorie-graham/)

> [The storm: I close my eyes and, standing in it, try to make it mine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorie-graham/the-storm-i-close-my-eyes-and-standing-in-it-try-to-make-it-mine/)

[Jorie Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorie-graham/)

> [“This is freedom. This is the force of faith. Nobody gets what they want. Never again are you the same. The longing is to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorie-graham/this-is-freedom-this-is-the-force-of-faith-nobody-gets-what-they-want/)

[Jorie Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorie-graham/)

> [What poetry can, must, and will always do for us: it complicates us, it doesn’t ‘soothe.’](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorie-graham/what-poetry-can-must-and-will-always-do-for-us-it-complicates-us-it/)

[Jorie Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorie-graham/)

> [Oh how we want to be taken and changed, want to be mended by what we enter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorie-graham/oh-how-we-want-to-be-taken-and-changed-want-to-be-mended-by-what-we/)

[Jorie Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorie-graham/)

> [There are moments in our lives which, threaded, give us heaven—](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorie-graham/there-are-moments-in-our-lives-which-threaded-give-us-heaven/)

[Jorie Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorie-graham/)

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