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 through adolescence without some form of song? Song is only a version of lyric… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
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 urgent element of poetry in our time, they carry the most… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
I am committed now to one thing: lyric sequences. I want the intensity of lyric, but the scope and arc of narrative. so, I… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
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… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
I can't actually explain why my lines got shorter, but they did. Just as I can't explain why my early poems were 'all image'… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
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… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
Another way of saying "put it in the Book" would be that each poem we write pops up in the city of poetry, where… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions, and traumatic events that come with being alive. — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
Poetry is the thread that leads us out of the labyrinth of despair and into the light. — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
D.H. Lawrence says that myths are "inexhaustible" because they are symbols of heart mysteries. That is, they can't be exhausted - they somehow have… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
“Somehow something has gone wrong with poetry in our culture. We have lost touch with its purpose and value, and in doing so, we… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
That's crudely put, but If we're not supposed to dance, Why all this music? — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
“Self-Portrait at Twenty" I stood inside myself like a dead tree or a tower. I pulled the rope of braided hair and high above… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
