Everyone had always told me I had to see alpine flowers, since I was writing about flowers, and I had never seen these. So I happened to be teaching a class at the University of Colorado, and I got to… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
Even your own memory changes over time because of circumstances or even because your body changes. — 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 anymore, and… — Martha Ronk 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 I wouldn't… — Martha Ronk 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 to write… — 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 so interested… — Martha Ronk 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 the accidents… — Martha Ronk 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 to do it or can't be charming or try, one day, just a bit too hard so that it is altogether not charming but something else. I couldn't ask for anything more or for more generosity or, and… — Martha Ronk Copy Share
Everyone had always told me I had to see alpine flowers, since I was writing about flowers, and I had never seen these. So… — Martha Ronk 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 Elizabeth, just one more way in which she used symbolism to solidify her reign: appearing as the Virgin Queen, for example, or wearing a dress embroidered with eyes and ears to indicate that she knew all that was… — Martha Ronk Copy Share
One of the reasons I like immersing myself in different texts, putting myself in the company of other writers, is that they do change… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
Our mind is dark in some way, and so we use rhetoric as a kind of prop or foil. — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
