"I wanted to pack a lot into the……" — Jorie Graham
"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 lyric could do. I just want the hugeness of experience-which includes philosophical discursiveness-to move at a rate of speed that kept it (because all within one unity of experience) emotional. Also, often, questions became the way the poems propelled themselves forward It brings the reader in as a listener to a confession[.] 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 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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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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