Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others.
Mary KarrI always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world.
Mary KarrHow much smaller the large places are once we're grown up, when we have car keys and credit cards.
Mary Karr