Forrest Gander Quotes & Sayings

There's an old blues refrain: I begged for water, you gave me gasoline. — Forrest Gander

Robert Creeley has forged a signature style in American poetry, an idiosyncratic, highly elliptical, syntactical compression by which the character of his mind's concentrated and stumbling proposals might be expressed ... Reading his poems, we experience the gnash of arriving through feeling at thought and word. — Forrest Gander

I have lost the consolation of faith/ though not the ambition to worship — Forrest Gander

Let me tell you something about meditation. At the absolute center, is the vortex we are spun from like clay, there is a shaping hand which is neither Godlike nor peaceful as you imagine. — Forrest Gander

In mauve sea-orchids as in her striking earlier book Guardians of the Secret, Lila Zemborain brings into relationship the viscera of the body and the spill of the universe in tense compositions that blur distinctions between lyric and prose poetry, between science and eros. — Forrest Gander

Love solves nothing, but your love made me appear to myself. — Forrest Gander