Quotes from Allen Grossman

Do not be content with an imaginary god.

A poem is about something the way a cat is about the house.

Do not be content with an imaginary god.

When I was green and blossomed in the Spring I was mute wood. Now I am dead I sing.

The Orphic Machine is the poem: A severed head with face turned away that sings.

Behold, I send the demon I know to relieve your need, An imperfect player at the perfect instrument Who takes in hand The Regulator of the World To keep the splendor from destroying us.

Poetry is a principle of power invoked by all of us against our vanishing.

If not every one of these people, who were never perfect, is worthy of our love, at least their fate deserves our attention and our memory. They should talk and be talked about.