"Similar but not the same" - that's like the return of the beloved for me. And metamorphosis: the … - Gregory Orr

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In high school, people are sometimes encouraged to be like everyone else. What's so great about this show is that these kids are weird and different and over-achievers. They know what they want and they're going after it. They're weird and they don't deny it. That's what makes it special.

Gregory Orr

"Similar but not the same" - that's like the return of the beloved for me. And metamorphosis: the spirit of the beloved moving through things, not lingering long in any one thing or place, no matter how we might wish it.

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I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions, and traumatic events that come with being alive.

Alive, Believe, Emotional, Poetry, Spiritual, Way

To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.

Emotional, Individual, Life, Self, Survival

No one can threaten poetry. It's always been there, always will be. Humans need it to live: it has sustaining powers. How could we (anyone) get through adolescence without some form of song? Song is only a version of lyric poetry that is carried more by melody than by internal coherence and unity. but lyric and song - they are the same.

Adolescence, Coherence, Internal, Lyric Poetry, Song, Unity

Another way of saying "put it in the Book" would be that each poem we write pops up in the city of poetry, where anyone can visit it. Just as we visit the poems written before us. Go to Dickinson's house, or Li Po's or whomever we think has something to say to us that might help or be beautiful.

Beautiful, Book, Say, Way, Writing, Written

When you're a young poet, reading is a search for your lost family.

Lost, Poet, Reading, Search