"I think I am probably in love with……" — Jorie Graham
"I think I am probably in love with silence, that other world. And that I write, in some way, to negotiate seriously with it . Because there is, of course, always the desire, the hope, that they are not two separate worlds, sound and silence, but that they become each other, that only our hearing fails."
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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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A poem is a private story, after all, no matter how apparently public. The reader is always overhearing a confession.
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There are moments in our lives which, threaded, give us heaven—
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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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