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 Glancy Copy Share Image
20th century poetry is a piñata. Images break from the earth when the poet strikes it. — Diane Glancy Copy Share Image
The word is important in Native American tradition. You speak the path on which you walk. Your words make the trail. — Diane Glancy Copy Share Image
“Solar Eclipse Each morning I wake invisible. I make a needle from a porcupine quill, sew feet to legs, lift spine onto my thighs.… — Diane Glancy Copy Share Image
Writing is the hammer & chisel that breaks down the established way of thinking. A concrete event, then an abstraction. An image, then a… — Diane Glancy Copy Share Image
I try. I am trying. I was trying. I will try. I shall in the meantime try. I sometimes have tried. I shall still… — Diane Glancy Copy Share Image
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 Glancy Copy Share Image
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.… — Diane Glancy Copy Share Image
Poetry saves what is human in this world going gaudy & insane. In exploring small truths, something larger might turn up, adding dimension, insight,… — Diane Glancy Copy Share Image
