Ivan Granger > Ivan's Quotes

“Poetry has an immediate effect on the mind. The simple act of reading poetry alters thought patterns and the shuttle of the breath. Poetry induces trance. Its words are chant. Its rhythms drumbeats. Its images become the icons of the inner eye. Poetry is more than a description of the sacred experience; it carries the experience itself.”
― Ivan M. Granger

“The parched know --

real thirst
draws rainwater
from an empty sky.”
― Ivan M. Granger

“You can feel the North. It takes hold of you, marks you. No matter how far you move from its center of gravity, you are invariably drawn to it by an invisible current, like water droplets to the earth, like a needle to a magnet, like blood to blood, desire to desire.”
― Laura Esquivel, Swift as Desire