Susan Griffin Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• I love that moment in writing when language falls short. There is something more there. A larger body. Even by the failure of words I begin to detect its dimensions. As I work the prose, shift the verbs, look for new adjectives, a different rhythm, syntax, something new begins to come to the surface.

  Susan Griffin

  Fall, Writing, Different

  Susan Griffin (1996). “The Eros of Everyday Life: Essays on Ecology, Gender and Society”, Anchor

• Language is filled
  with words for deprivation
  images so familiar
  it is hard to crack language open
  into that other country
  the country of being.

  Susan Griffin

  Country, Cracks, Language

  Susan Griffin (1987). “Unremembered country: poems”, Copper Canyon Pr

• Each time I write, each time the authentic words break through, I am changed. The older order that I was collapses and dies. I lose control. I do not know exactly what words will appear on the page. I follow language. I follow the sound of the words, and I am surprised and transformed by what I record.

  Susan Griffin

  Writing, Break Through, Order

  Susan Griffin (1983). “Made from this earth: an anthology of writings”, HarperCollins Publishers

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