The days start to be charged not because tomorrow you're leaving, but because in three weeks you're leaving. The future impinges. So you start to think about the frame. — 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 for a brief period of time and then gone, as when Prospero describes the pageant fading, leaving "not… — 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… — 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 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… — 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 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
