Diane Glancy Quotes & Sayings

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

It is easier to gnaw through bone. Than the hide of the heart. — Diane Glancy

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

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

The word is important in Native American tradition. You speak the path on which you walk. Your words make the trail. — Diane Glancy

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

Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold. — Diane Glancy

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

Who creates unless he has a vacuum to fill? — Diane Glancy

Who thinks of justice unless he knows injustice? — Diane Glancy

Words - as I speak or write them - make a path on which I walk. — Diane Glancy