Katherine Towler > Quotes

“My poems are addressed to an “all”—the stars, the trees, the birds, everything. When I’m writing a poem, I feel like the whole future of the universe depends on that poem. Of course I’m laughing, chuckling to myself as I say this. I’m embarrassed that I feel this way, but I do. Someone asked a poet I know after September 11th if he could write a poem for the occasion of September 11th. He said, “I already did. It’s all I have ever been doing.” In a way, every poem is written at Ground Zero.”
― Katherine Towler, A God in the House: Poets Talk About Faith

“Why is it that sometimes we can hardly tolerate the people we love most, and then when we are apart from them we feel how important they are to us, how incomplete we are without them. Human beings are so restless and in consistent”
― Katherine Towler, Evening Ferry

“Now I feel that spiritual reality is entire, and is ultimately love, and that we live between suffering and the ultimate reality of love. This is where I am now.”
― Katherine Towler, A God in the House: Poets Talk About Faith