I am committed now to one thing: lyric sequences. I want the intensity of lyric, but the scope and arc of narrative.… — 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… — 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,… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
Poetry is the thread that leads us out of the labyrinth of despair and into the light. — Gregory Orr Copy Share
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
“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
“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
Beauty is like life itself: a dawn mist the sun burns off. It gives no peace, no rest. — Gregory Orr Copy Share
Rhyme as an echo not a closing off of sound. Love it. I don't know where the rhymes came from. Or the puns like… — Gregory Orr Copy Share
