Jorie Graham Quotes

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

Jorie Graham

There are moments in our lives which, threaded, give us heaven — noon, for instance, or all the single victories of gravity, or the kudzu vine, most delicate of manias, which has pressed its luck this far this season. It shines a gloating green.

Jorie Graham

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

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

The way things work
is that eventually
something catches.

Jorie Graham

Jorie Graham

Jorie Graham

Born: May 9, 1950 (age 74)

Bio: Jorie Graham is an American poet. The Poetry Foundation called Graham "one of the most celebrated poets of the American post-war generation.

Known for:

The Dream of the Unified Field (1995)
The end of beauty (1987)
The errancy (1997)
Hybrids of plants and of ghosts (1980)
Region of unlikeness (1991)

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