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Gregory Orr quotes: Poetry is the thread that leads us out of the labyrinth of despair and into the light.

Poetry is the thread that leads us out of the labyrinth of despair and into the light.

Gregory Orr quotes: That's crudely put, but If we're not supposed to dance, Why all this music?

That's crudely put, but
If we're not supposed to dance,
Why all this music?

Gregory Orr quotes: For TrishaThe truth's in myth not fact,a story fragment or an actthat lasts and stands for all:how bees made honey in a skull.

For Trisha
The truth's in myth not fact,
a story fragment or an act
that lasts and stands for all:
how bees made honey in a skull.

Gregory Orr quotes: Beauty is like life itself: a dawn mist the sun burns off. It gives no peace, no rest.

Beauty is like life itself: a dawn mist the sun burns off. It gives no peace, no rest.

Gregory Orr quotes: With "poets dead and gone" as Keats says in "Mermaid Tavern" they are alive and talking to us and us to them.

With "poets dead and gone" as Keats says in "Mermaid Tavern" they are alive and talking to us and us to them.

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

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

Gregory Orr quotes: To guide someone through the halls of hell is not the same as love.

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

Gregory Orr quotes: To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.

To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.

Gregory Orr quotes: Where would I be if not for your wild heart?I ask this not from love, but selfishly - how could I live? How could I make my art?

Where would I be if not for your wild heart?
I ask this not from love, but selfishly -
how could I live? How could I make my art?

Gregory Orr quotes: When you're a young poet, reading is a search for your lost family.

When you're a young poet, reading is a search for your lost family.

Gregory Orr quotes: And yet I swearI love this earththat scars and scalds,that burns my feet.And even hell is holy.

And yet I swear
I love this earth
that scars and scalds,
that burns my feet.

And even hell is holy.

Gregory Orr quotes: The way the word sinksinto the deep snow of the page

The way the word sinks
into the deep snow of the page

Gregory Orr quotes: Every breath is a resurrection.

Every breath is a resurrection.

Gregory Orr quotes: When it's right you can't say Who is kissing whom.

When it's right you can't say Who is kissing whom.