Diane Glancy Quotes

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  • 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.

    Jobs   Emotional   Poetry  
    Diane Glancy (1996). “Claiming Breath”, p.83, U of Nebraska Press
  • 20th century poetry is a piñata. Images break from the earth when the poet strikes it.

    Poetry   Earth   Break  
  • 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 (1996). “Claiming Breath”, p.23, U of Nebraska Press
  • The word is important in Native American tradition. You speak the path on which you walk. Your words make the trail.

    Diane Glancy (1996). “Claiming Breath”, p.4, U of Nebraska Press
  • Who thinks of justice unless he knows injustice?

    Diane Glancy (1991). “Lone Dog's Winter Count”
  • Words - as I speak or write them - make a path on which I walk.

    Writing   Path   Speak  
  • Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold.

    Mold   Use   Jello  
    Diane Glancy (1996). “Claiming Breath”, p.75, U of Nebraska Press
  • It is easier to gnaw through bone. Than the hide of the heart.

    Heart   Bones   Easier  
    Diane Glancy (1991). “Lone Dog's Winter Count”
  • Poetry is road maintenance for a fragmented world which seeks to be kept together. It's been an integral activity for a long time.

    Long   Poetry   Together  
    Diane Glancy (1996). “Claiming Breath”, p.28, U of Nebraska Press
  • 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 at the 23rd Annual University of North Dakota Writers Conference, digital.undwritersconference.org. March 19, 1992.
  • 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.

    Poetry   Vision   Insane  
    Diane Glancy (1996). “Claiming Breath”, p.83, U of Nebraska Press
  • Who creates unless he has a vacuum to fill?

    Diane Glancy (1991). “Lone Dog's Winter Count”
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