1.
Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold.
Diane Glancy
2.
I try. I am trying. I was trying. I will try. I shall in the meantime try. I sometimes have tried. I shall still by that time be trying.
Diane Glancy
3.
It is easier to gnaw through bone. Than the hide of the heart.
Diane Glancy
4.
Writing is the hammer & chisel that breaks down the established way of thinking. A concrete event, then an abstraction. An image, then a thought. Finally, writing builds another establishment with the fragments.
Diane Glancy
5.
Poetry examines an emotional truth. It's an experience filtered through the personality of the poet. We look to poetry for visions, not scientific truths. The poet's job is to combine new elements. Explore their melting, seeping into one another.
Diane Glancy
6.
Poetry is road maintenance for a fragmented world which seeks to be kept together. It's been an integral activity for a long time.
Diane Glancy
7.
Who thinks of justice unless he knows injustice?
Diane Glancy
8.
Words - as I speak or write them - make a path on which I walk.
Diane Glancy
9.
Poetry saves what is human in this world going gaudy & insane. In exploring small truths, something larger might turn up, adding dimension, insight, vision, recognition to our lives. We just might be more complete, more aware after a poem.
Diane Glancy
10.
The word is important in Native American tradition. You speak the path on which you walk. Your words make the trail.
Diane Glancy
11.
Who creates unless he has a vacuum to fill?
Diane Glancy
12.
20th century poetry is a piñata. Images break from the earth when the poet strikes it.
Diane Glancy
