"What poetry can, must, and will always do……" — Jorie Graham
"What poetry can, must, and will always do for us: it complicates us, it doesn’t ‘soothe.’"
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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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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 storm: I close my eyes and, standing in it, try to make it mine.
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More Complicates Quotes
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Opportunism is self interest seeking with guile often involving subtle forms of deceit, especially calculated efforts to mislead, distort, disguise,…
— Unknown Author
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The basic purpose of life insurance is to create cash…nothing more or nothing less. Everything else confuses and complicates.
— Ben Feldman
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I'm a mother, I'm a journalist, I'm an American; I'm all of those things, and it really complicates your job…
— Paula Zahn
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Even if evolution were true, it wouldn't disprove God. God has performed more spectacular feats than evolution. It's not even…
— Ann Coulter
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Sex complicates, but it is the power of love to simplify.
— Geoff Ryman
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God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
— Charles Lindbergh
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Marriage simplifies life and complicates the day.
— Jean Rostand
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The hurricane complicates things in that what would have been purely a business decision becomes a decision of the heart.
— Henry Cisneros
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One is that you legislate according to natural selection, the other is that you don't. You have compassion, you try…
— Bill Nighy
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
— Katharine Fullerton Gerould
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Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who…
— Charles Lindbergh
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We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an…
— Atul Gawande
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