Quotes from Judy Grahn

From my mother, a rock, / I have learned that rocks give / most of all.

What you will do matters. All you need is to do it.

What you will do matters. All you need is to do it.

Here, the sea strains to climb up on the land and the wind blows dust in a single direction. The trees bend themselves all one way and volcanoes explode often Why is this? Many years back a woman of strong purpose passed through this section and everything else tried to follow.

She figured out that the only way to keep from being frozen was to stay in motion, and long ago converted most of her flesh into liquid. Now when she smells danger, she spills herself all over, like gasoline, and lights it.

I'm not a girl. I'm a hatchet

Everyone wants Love to follow them / down their road; / where is it that Love wants to go?

We cannot live in the past, nor can we re-create it. Yet as we unravel the past, the future also unfolds before us, as though they are mirrors without which neither can be seen or happen.