The Dream of the Unified Field Quotes

“the feeling of being a digression not the link in the argument,
a new direction, an offshoot, the limb going on elsewhere,

and liking that error, a feeling of being capable because an error,

of being wrong perhaps altogether wrong a piece from another set

stripped of position stripped of true function

and loving that error, loving that filial form, that break from perfection

where the complex mechanism fails, where the stranger appears in the clearing,

out of nowhere and uncalled for, out of nowhere to share the day.”
― Jorie Graham, The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems, 1974-1994

“There is a feeling the body gives the mind
of having missed something, a bedrock poverty, like falling

without the sense that you are passing through one world,
that you could reach another
anytime. Instead the real
is crossing you,

your body an arrival
you know is false but can't outrun. And somewhere in between
these geese forever entering and
these spiders turning back,

this astonishing delay, the everyday, takes place.”
― Jorie Graham, The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems, 1974-1994

“May I break your even weave, loosen your knot,
and if i break you are you mine?”
― Jorie Graham, The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems, 1974-1994