“Whenever I read a poem that moves me, I know I'm not alone in the world. I feel a connection to the person who wrote it, knowing that he or she has gone through something similar to what I've experienced, or felt something like what I have felt. And their poem gives me hope and courage, because I know that they survived, that their life force was strong enough to turn experience into words and shape it into meaning and then bring it toward me to share.” KnowsWorldGivingFeelsPersonsEnoughMovingTurnsStrongForceFeltGoneKnowingShareShapesConnectionsGive MeSurvivedNot AloneStrong Enough Author:Gregory Orr
“I want language to help us live in a world of wonder/terror/change. I want it to be about "becoming" rather than "being." I think that being and nouns are part of our hopeless dream that time will stop and we will not die. but it's not that way. So, why not celebrate verbs and the beloved's metamorphosis into other people or creatures or places - the same spirit but moving through things, not static.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayWantHelpingDreamMovingSpiritDiesLanguageWonderBecomingCreaturesTerrorCelebrateBelovedHopelessWhy NotStaticVerbsMetamorphosisNouns Author:Gregory Orr
“Rhyme as an echo not a closing off of sound. Love it. I don't know where the rhymes came from. Or the puns like "no/know" and so on. Just a way my mind start moving toward what seemed urgent to it. I'd like to claim complete rational intent for it all, but it wasn't that way. if you asked me about rhyme thirty years ago, I'd have said: not me, never. And now I done it.” IfsKnowsWayYearsMindSaidDoneMovingSoundYears AgoClaimsRationalThirtyEchoesRhymeUrgentClosingThirty YearsPunClosing Off Author:Gregory Orr
“"Similar but not the same" - that's like the return of the beloved for me. And metamorphosis: the spirit of the beloved moving through things, not lingering long in any one thing or place, no matter how we might wish it.” LongMatterMightMovingSpiritWishOne ThingReturnBelovedMetamorphosisLingering Author:Gregory Orr
