Diane Glancy famous quotes

04-17-2025

I try. I am trying. I was trying. I will try. I shall in the meantime try. I sometimes have tried. I shall still by that time be trying.
-- Diane Glancy

#Perseverance #Trying #Sometimes
It is easier to gnaw through bone. Than the hide of the heart.
-- Diane Glancy

#Heart #Bones #Easier
Poetry is road maintenance for a fragmented world which seeks to be kept together. It's been an integral activity for a long time.
-- Diane Glancy

#Long #Poetry #Together
Poetry examines an emotional truth. It's an experience filtered through the personality of the poet. We look to poetry for visions, not scientific truths. The poet's job is to combine new elements. Explore their melting, seeping into one another.
-- Diane Glancy

#Jobs #Emotional #Poetry
Poetry saves what is human in this world going gaudy & insane. In exploring small truths, something larger might turn up, adding dimension, insight, vision, recognition to our lives. We just might be more complete, more aware after a poem.
-- Diane Glancy

#Poetry #Vision #Insane
20th century poetry is a piÃ±ata. Images break from the earth when the poet strikes it.
-- Diane Glancy

#Poetry #Earth #Break
Who thinks of justice unless he knows injustice?
-- Diane Glancy

#Thinking #Justice #Injustice
The word is important in Native American tradition. You speak the path on which you walk. Your words make the trail.
-- Diane Glancy

#Native American #Important #Path
Who creates unless he has a vacuum to fill?
-- Diane Glancy

#Creativity #Vacuums
Writing is the hammer & chisel that breaks down the established way of thinking. A concrete event, then an abstraction. An image, then a thought. Finally, writing builds another establishment with the fragments.
-- Diane Glancy

#Writing #Thinking #Events
Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold.
-- Diane Glancy

#Mold #Use #Jello

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