Dimensions Quote by Diane Glancy

Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold.

— Diane Glancy

The word is important in Native American tradition. You speak the path on which you walk. Your words make the trail.

— Diane Glancy

“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

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

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

Who thinks of justice unless he knows injustice?

— Diane Glancy

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

It is easier to gnaw through bone. Than the hide of the heart.

— Diane Glancy

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

“Words -- as I speak or write them -- make a path on which I walk.”

— Diane Glancy

Who creates unless he has a vacuum to fill?

— Diane Glancy

20th century poetry is a piñata. Images break from the earth when the poet strikes it.

— Diane Glancy