Following are some excerpts from an interview with poet Gregory Orr in the March/April issue of The Writer's Chronicle:
"When you're a young poet, reading is a search for your lost family ...
I have this theory that we're looking for stuff that's going to save our lives; poems and songs we love so much that they're a key to our own being ... If we put together the fifteen songs and poems that we love most in the world and look at them, it's like looking in a mirror and seeing yourself. It's not a mirror that shows your face; it's more one that's showing your soul ...
If you're a lyric poet you believe in the passions and the mysteries, especially sex and death. And you also believe that you compress language as much as possible until the process reverses, and all that concentrated energy radiates back out...
Whenever we're deeply moved by a poem or song, that seems a moment of the resurrection of the beloved ... it's something to do with the beloved as the world ...
Recognizing beauty in the world is recognizing the existence of the beloved."
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