Top 12 Quotes by 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.

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.

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

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

Diane Glancy

Writing, Path, Speak

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

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

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