Gregory Orr Quotes

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

Gregory Orr

#2. The trouble, in my opinion, with corporate America today, is that everything is thought of in quarters.

Henry Kravis

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

Gregory Orr

#4. Our most emotionally active life is lived in our dreams, and our cells renew themselves most industriously in sleep. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great; he is free from the experience of hostility; he is a poet, and most like an angel.

Leonard Bernstein

#5. Seeing other people is incredibly engaging, and that's one of the drivers that made us partner with Facebook - social communication. Not social newsfeeds, but actual face-to-face, seeing multiple avatars in a play experience, that's going to be a very big part of the future in VR.

Brendan Iribe

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

Gregory Orr

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

Gregory Orr

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

Gregory Orr

#9. The type of librarians who are thriving most consistently in the digital era are those who have found a way to operate as a node in a network of libraries and librarians. They are agents of change, actively creating the future instead of constantly reacting to it -

John Palfrey

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

Gregory Orr

#11. Somehow something has gone wrong with poetry in our culture. We have lost touch with its purpose and value, and in doing so, we have lost contact with essential aspects of our own emotional and spiritual lives.

Gregory Orr

#12. The way the word sinks
into the deep snow of the page

Gregory Orr

#13. "Similar but not the same" - that's like the return of the beloved for me. And metamorphosis: the spirit of the beloved moving through things, not lingering long in any one thing or place, no matter how we might wish it.

Gregory Orr

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

Gregory Orr

#15. Another way of saying "put it in the Book" would be that each poem we write pops up in the city of poetry, where anyone can visit it. Just as we visit the poems written before us. Go to Dickinson's house, or Li Po's or whomever we think has something to say to us that might help or be beautiful.

Gregory Orr

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

And even hell is holy.

Gregory Orr

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

Gregory Orr

#18. The week was a wound he hadn't even steeled himself to look at yet. Yet he felt it bleed.

Bill Beverly

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

Gregory Orr

#20. 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

#21. Every breath is a resurrection.

Gregory Orr

#22. 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