Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body.
Susan GriffinEven in the grimmest of circumstances, a shift in perspective can create startling change.
Susan GriffinI think artists can go to a level of vision that can often save us from a situation which seems to have no solution whatsoever.
Susan GriffinI love that moment in writing when language falls short. There is something more there. A larger body. Even by the failure of words I begin to detect its dimensions. As I work the prose, shift the verbs, look for new adjectives, a different rhythm, syntax, something new begins to come to the surface.
Susan Griffin