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