Diane Glancy Quotes

• 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

  Perseverance, Trying, Sometimes

  Diane Glancy at the 23rd Annual University of North Dakota Writers Conference, digital.undwritersconference.org. March 19, 1992.

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

  Diane Glancy

  Native American, Important, Path

  Diane Glancy (1996). “Claiming Breath”, p.4, U of Nebraska Press

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• Words - as I speak or write them - make a path on which I walk.

  Diane Glancy

  Writing, Path, Speak

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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.

  Diane Glancy

  Jobs, Emotional, Poetry

  Diane Glancy (1996). “Claiming Breath”, p.83, U of Nebraska Press

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• 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

  Writing, Thinking, Events

  Diane Glancy (1996). “Claiming Breath”, p.23, U of Nebraska Press

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• 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, Vision, Insane

  Diane Glancy (1996). “Claiming Breath”, p.83, U of Nebraska Press

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• Who thinks of justice unless he knows injustice?

  Diane Glancy

  Thinking, Justice, Injustice

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

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• 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

  Long, Poetry, Together

  Diane Glancy (1996). “Claiming Breath”, p.28, U of Nebraska Press

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• It is easier to gnaw through bone. Than the hide of the heart.

  Diane Glancy

  Heart, Bones, Easier

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

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• Who creates unless he has a vacuum to fill?

  Diane Glancy

  Creativity, Vacuums

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

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• 20th century poetry is a piñata. Images break from the earth when the poet strikes it.

  Diane Glancy

  Poetry, Earth, Break

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

  Diane Glancy

  Mold, Use, Jello

  Diane Glancy (1996). “Claiming Breath”, p.75, U of Nebraska Press

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