Family Quote by Gregory Orr Download Open image “When you're a young poet, reading is a search for your lost family.” — Gregory Orr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Family Lost Lost family Poet Poetry Reading Young
When you find it you become the secret addressee of a literary text and I felt that their reader had been left out of… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The sole literary presence from my childhood was my grandfather, a Jewish immigrant from Latvia, who eccentrically copied poems into the backs of his… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The more I read my poems, the more I find out about them. I still read them with the same passion I felt when… — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
No poet is ever completely lost. He has the secret of his childhood safe with him, like some secret cave in which he can… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
I had no one to help me, but the T. S. Eliot helped me. So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or that it shouldn’t be read at school because it is irrelevant, or any of the strange stupid things that are said about poetry and its place in… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share
I was lucky to have read a lot of poetry when I was younger; it helped me to remember a way to write. — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
“The time of minor poets is coming. Good-by Whitman, Dickinson, Frost. Welcome you whose fame will never reach beyond your closest family, and perhaps one or two good friends gathered after dinner over a jug of fierce red wine… While the children are falling asleep and complaining about the noise you’re making as you rummage through the closets for your… — Charles Simic Copy Share
Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
A stress on the system and I think a painful thing for many young poets who are looking to find a life in poetry… — Edward Hirsch 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Poetry is the thread that leads us out of the labyrinth of despair and into the light. — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
That's crudely put, but If we're not supposed to dance, Why all this music? — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
“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 Image
I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
One can put some trust in the gratitude of a sovereign, and also in that of his family; under certain conditions, one can even… — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“ever day Maureen is Selfish To her friend and Family One she get mad at her friend and family and She need to Grad… — Maureen Andeson Copy Share Image
Our concept of a family holiday was going to a guest house in the Lake district or Wales where walking was part of the… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
“So Jace is my actual family," Kit said. "But I can't go live with him, because him and his hot girlfriend are going off… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked away. — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image
“She knew how to play him so very well. He slipped his hand around hers. "Friends," he repeated roughly. Her smile was bright enough… — Kathryn Smith Copy Share Image
As a family, we all loved the Flyers. To me, rooting for the Flyers were how I bonded with my dad especially. — Adam F. Goldberg Copy Share Image
The people have always been family to me here in Las Vegas. The people have always been very, very kind to me, and it's… — Randall Cunningham Copy Share Image
