Poetry as Survival Quotes

“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, Poetry as Survival

“There are human experiences, too many of them, where the violence against the self is so intense that to simply retell them as chronology involves enormous courage and represents a self's triumph over that which threatens destruction.”
― Gregory Orr, Poetry as Survival

“The personal lyric says to the self in its suffering: "I will not abandon you. Nor will I ask you to abandon yourself and the felt truth and particulars of your experience.”
― Gregory Orr, Poetry as Survival