For me, failure has to be acknowledged, needs to be faced in some way. — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
A number of poems don't work alone. They need to fit together to work. — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
I try to attach myself to things around me so that they don't slip away. — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
I prefer always to think that I am creating a book, not a series of stand-alone poems. — Martha Ronk Book Copy Share Image
Looking out a window from different vantage points changes what you see and therefore what you write. — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
I'm really interested in what you remember, how you remember, what your perspective is as opposed to somebody else's. — Martha Ronk Memory Copy Share Image
Often poets fall into groups that exclude others, and don't pay attention to those who write in different ways. It seems so… — Martha Ronk Attention Copy Share Image
I can't move my body slowly. I can't move the line slowly. So I end up with way too much, often opaque… — Martha Ronk Body Copy Share Image
Even your own memory changes over time because of circumstances or even because your body changes. — Martha Ronk Body Copy Share Image
I want literature to open all the doors that I can't open by myself, and to allow me to see things that… — Martha Ronk Books Copy Share Image
Our mind is dark in some way, and so we use rhetoric as a kind of prop or foil. — Martha Ronk Dark Copy Share Image
I'm always somehow drawn to that sense of how fragile things are and how a garden means so differently depending upon whose… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
I'm in California, so I know people who are natives who tell me there's lots of weather here, but it's not the… — Martha Ronk California Copy Share Image
One of the things I've always thought is that if I were to write a poetics, it would have to do with… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I like immersing myself in different texts, putting myself in the company of other writers, is that they… — Martha Ronk Business Copy Share Image
I think those of us who use language are always trying for this, trying to keep everything from floating away by trying… — Martha Ronk Always trying Copy Share Image
Gardens do offer a temporal tableau and certainly mean differently in different eras and indeed geographies (think of the formal gardens in… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
“And she would continue to say to those who would still listen that it was a classic case of betrayal (You can… — Martha Ronk Betrayal Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in the fragility of things, and with special urgency now because of climate change, but also because of… — Martha Ronk Accidents Copy Share Image
I think about the kinds of gardens that Queen Elizabeth put up. She made gardens in the shape of an "E," for… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
Everyone had always told me I had to see alpine flowers, since I was writing about flowers, and I had never seen… — Martha Ronk Alpine Copy Share Image
“He finds me charming and so long as I don't think about it, it's ok, but I worry, what if I forget… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
I know that in some ways I operate from a kind of antiquated interest in imagery, while many contemporary poets are not… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
Shakespeare, of course, makes us ever aware of transience, not only in the sonnets, but also powerfully in his plays - spectacles… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
I can't remember the past, or I can't see very clearly, or I've gotten older and the person I was isn't there… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
You can get a sense of the wonderful power of framing by holding your fingers up in a kind of square, walking… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
The days start to be charged not because tomorrow you're leaving, but because in three weeks you're leaving. The future impinges. So… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
