• Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others.

    Mary Karr: Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others.
    "Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly" with Judy Valente, www.pbs.org. March 4, 2011.