Jorie Graham Quotes

#1. Brilliant, hard-earned and honest. The erasures and reappearances of figure and ground-that hard drama-have rarely been so movingly undertaken. A heartbreakingly beautiful work.

Jorie Graham

#2. Or she could remember that sometimes pride was less important than doing what had to be done. She

Nora Roberts

#3. Well this is just a fist. But when I start throwing it around I can leave one hell of a mess.

Jim Carrey

#4. Places seem to me to have some kind of memory, in that they activate memory in those who look at them.

W.G. Sebald

#5. There's no such thing as a sane woman.

Andrew Sturm

#6. An ally need not own the land he helps.

Euripides

#7. Civilians who volunteer generally wish to escape, not to share, privatizations worse than their own.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#8. Towards the end of the season it is not bad to have the body. To have experienced joy as the mere lifting of hunger is not to have known it less.

Jorie Graham

#9. It turns out that I learned something from my dear old dad after all: firemen are experts at getting into places they shouldn't be.

Jodi Picoult

#10. The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's the only force I know that is fairly reliable.

John Perry Barlow

#11. Oh how we want
to be taken
and changed,
want to be mended
by what we enter.

Jorie Graham

#12. This is freedom. This is the force of faith. Nobody gets what they want. Never again are you the same. The longing
is to be pure. What you get is to be changed.

Jorie Graham

#13. Children are like soft petals. One wrong pluck and they are damaged forever.

Nikita Dudani

#14. New questions can produce new scientific leaps. They can tiddlywink new flips of insight and understanding. Big ones. Paradigm shifts.

Howard Bloom

#15. The primary function of the creative use of language - in our age - is to try to constantly restore words to their meanings, to keep the living tissue of responsibility alive.

Jorie Graham

#16. Where mathematics and spirit join, where proof of the existence of mystery-salvific mystery-shimmers just below the surfaces of human perception, experience and the linguistic veil itself, Killarney Clary's new book-her best to date-dwells, plumbs, persuades and thrills.

Jorie Graham

#17. The storm: I close my eyes and, standing in it, try to make it mine.

Jorie Graham

#18. There are moments in our lives which, threaded, give us heaven -

Jorie Graham

#19. He cast his eyes upon her and the trouble soon began, cause Leroy Brown learned a lesson about messing with the wife of a jealous man.

Jim Croce

#20. And angle of vision, dust, gravity, solitude,
and the part of the law which is the world's waiting
and the part of the law which is my waiting,
and the part which is my impatience - now; now?
though there are, there really are
things in the world, you must believe me.

Jorie Graham

#21. Sharks don't kill because they're poor, criminal, insane, or repressed. A shark kills because it's a shark.

Barry B. Longyear

#22. If there is anything I love most, in the poems I love, it is the audible braiding of that bravery, that essential empty-handedness, and that willingness to be taken by surprise, all in one voice.

Jorie Graham

#23. A poem is a private story, after all, no matter how apparently public. The reader is always overhearing a confession.

Jorie Graham

#24. Love / is turning out the lights when others do, a curfew we / would take / for sails.

Jorie Graham

#25. I get irritated, I get upset. Especially when I'm in a hurry. But I see it all as part of our training. To get irritated is to lose our way in life.

Haruki Murakami

#26. The way things work / is that eventually / something catches.

Jorie Graham