“In Eden I "saw" that Adam or Eve probably spoke each word FOR THE FIRST TIME and that seemed wild and seemed to me that that might have brought them to some essence of language. Once I "saw" the city, I knew it was real. once I saw that a poem was a house, i knew it was real and could go back to it or else write a flurry of poems around it, both worked.” WritingFirstsRealMightHouseLanguageCitiesSawsFirst TimeEssenceSpokesAdamEden Author:Gregory Orr
“To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.” FirstsSelfIndividualEmotionalSurvivalPoetry IsEmotional Life Author:Gregory Orr
