How Beautiful the Beloved Quotes

“To learn by heart is to learn
By hurt—grief inscribing
Its wisdom in the soft tissue.

Song you sing, poem you are—
Finger moving, precise
As a phonograph needle,
Along the groove of scar.”
― Gregory Orr, How Beautiful the Beloved

“Her eye and my ‘I’: Her gazing Creates me.”
― Gregory Orr, How Beautiful the Beloved

“I want to study The book of the world: Every vanishing page.”
― Gregory Orr, How Beautiful the Beloved