Gregory Orr famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions, and traumatic events that come with being alive.
-- Gregory Orr

#Spiritual #Believe #Emotional
To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.
-- Gregory Orr

#Emotional #Self #Survival
When you're a young poet, reading is a search for your lost family.
-- Gregory Orr

#Reading #Poet #Lost
When it's right you can't say Who is kissing whom.
-- Gregory Orr

#Kissing
Every breath is a resurrection.
-- Gregory Orr

#Resurrection
That's crudely put, but If we're not supposed to dance, Why all this music?
-- Gregory Orr
To guide someone through the halls of hell is not the same as love.
-- Gregory Orr

#Hell #Guides #Halls
Poetry is the thread that leads us out of the labyrinth of despair and into the light.
-- Gregory Orr

#Light #Labyrinth #Despair
Beauty is like life itself: a dawn mist the sun burns off. It gives no peace, no rest.
-- Gregory Orr

#Beautiful #Giving #Dawn
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.
-- Gregory Orr

#Strong #Moving #Knowing

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