Jorie Graham Quotes

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• I wanted to pack a lot into the lyric, but not go beyond its bounds. Some have written that I wanted to expand what the…
• I think I am probably in love with silence, that other world. And that I write, in some way, to negotiate seriously with it.
• The way things work / is that eventually / something catches.
• Where mathematics and spirit join, where proof of the existence of mystery-salvific mystery-shimmers just below the surfaces of human perception, experience and the linguistic veil…
• A poem is a private story, after all, no matter how apparently public. The reader is always overhearing a confession.
• There are moments in our lives which, threaded, give us heaven—
• I think I am probably in love with silence, that other world. And that I write, in some way, to negotiate seriously with it .…
• What poetry can, must, and will always do for us: it complicates us, it doesn’t ‘soothe.’
• The storm: I close my eyes and, standing in it, try to make it mine.

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