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

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Source : "The Making of Poems" by Gregory Orr, www.npr.org. February 20, 2006.

Gregory Orr

#Spiritual Quotes #Believe Quotes #Emotional Quotes

“You are a writer when you tell yourself you are. No one else's opinion matters. Screw them. You are when you say you are.”
“Instinct is the most powerful thing you have, and you have to trust it.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“I can only do what I do with a spirit of humor, and faith and give the controls over to something else.”
“My goal is not getting hit and to knock the other guy out. Some people might complain because they want to see boxers beat up on each other, but you cannot last long in professional boxing if you take a lot of punches.”
“The external forces conceal from the eyes the deep meaning of existence; True faith resides in the heart.”
“The music that I made in my band wasn't the expression of everything I was into. Bands are based on compromise.”
“We have traveled through space and time. We have been many places. Visited many worlds. And there is good news: the acoustics everywhere are terrific.”
“Barry Bonds is outspoken. I think that the people of Pittsburgh felt, it's a syndrome of you've got to apologize for being successful if you're successful (as well as) black and outspoken.”

Source : Source: articles.latimes.com

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