Gregory Orr Quotes
- When you're a young poet, reading is a search for your lost family.
- Beauty is like life itself: a dawn mist the sun burns off. It gives no peace, no rest.
- To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.
- Poetry is the thread that leads us out of the labyrinth of despair and into the light.
- Every breath is a resurrection.
- I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions, and traumatic events that come with being alive.