"To guide someone through the halls of hell is not the same as love."

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Source : Gregory Orr (2013). “Orpheus & Eurydice: A Lyric Sequence”, p.22, Copper Canyon Press

Gregory Orr

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“Strange to dream in the right shape and build in the wrong shape, but maybe that is what we do every day, never believing that a dream could tell the truth.”
“All art is solitary and the studio is a torture area.”

Source : 1979 In the NewYork Times,13 May.
“Sometimes in astronomy, a heavenly body has been virtually invisible until a single observer detects its presence and points it out to his colleagues, who then see it with increasing clarity. Perhaps a myriad of unknown senses are only awaiting our consciousness.”
“If you are eagerly looking for salvation, and if you believe in God, you may ... become acquainted with the Christ of God, and, after being initiated [a reference to baptism], live a happy life.”
“I love talking about Scientology.”
“Maidens, like moths, are ever caught, by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.”
“I was painfully shy, and I had tremendous difficulty making friends. So, lacking friends, I watched other people. Watching is something all writers must do, and it was in junior high that I learned to do it.”
“I will go anywhere, provided it is forward.”

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