--- title: "1 Ledge Quotes By Kay Ryan" description: "1 Ledge quotes by Kay Ryan. Plus more from Kay Ryan and more Ledge sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bb2/kay-ryan-16282_ledges_ledge-birds-that-love-high-trees-and-win_2658640.jpg" --- > [“ Ledge Birds that love high trees and winds and riding flailing branches hate ledges as gripless and narrow, so that a tail is not just no advantage but ridiculous, mashed vertical against the wall. You will have seen the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-ryan/ledge-birds-that-love-high-trees-and-winds-and-riding-flailing/) [Kay Ryan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-ryan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bb2/kay-ryan-16282_ledges_ledge-birds-that-love-high-trees-and-win_2658640.jpg) ## More by Kay Ryan > [A too closely watched flower/blossoms the wrong color./Excess attention to the jonquil/turns it gentian. Flowers/need it tranquil to get/their hues right. Some/only open at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-ryan/a-too-closely-watched-flower-blossoms-the-wrong-color-excess/) [Kay Ryan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-ryan/) > [It isn't ever delicate to live.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-ryan/it-isn-t-ever-delicate-to-live/) [Kay Ryan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-ryan/) > [I simply want to celebrate the fact that right near your home, year in and year out, a community college is quietly - and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-ryan/i-simply-want-to-celebrate-the-fact-that-right-near-your-home-year-in/) [Kay Ryan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-ryan/) > [The day misspent, the love misplaced, has inside it the seed of redemption. Nothing is exempt from resurrection.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-ryan/the-day-misspent-the-love-misplaced-has-inside-it-the-seed-of/) [Kay Ryan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-ryan/) > [“ Stardust is the hardest thing to hold out for. You must make of yourself a perfect plane- something still upon which something settles-…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-ryan/stardust-is-the-hardest-thing-to-hold-out-for-you-must-make-of/) [Kay Ryan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-ryan/) > [What keeps me writing is that I can only know through writing. My major sense organ is apparently a pencil.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-ryan/what-keeps-me-writing-is-that-i-can-only-know-through-writing-my/) [Kay Ryan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-ryan/) > [Forgetting takes space./Forgotten matters displace/as much anything else as/anything else. We must/skirt unlabeled crates/as thought it made sense/and take them when we go/to other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-ryan/forgetting-takes-space-forgotten-matters-displace-as-much-anything/) [Kay Ryan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-ryan/) > [“The Self Is Not Portable The self is not portable. It cannot be packed. It comes sneaking back to any place from which it's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-ryan/the-self-is-not-portable-the-self-is-not-portable-it-cannot-be-packed/) [Kay Ryan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-ryan/) > [Who would have guessed it possible that waiting is sustainable. A place with its own harvest.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-ryan/who-would-have-guessed-it-possible-that-waiting-is-sustainable-a/) [Kay Ryan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-ryan/) > [The only real access that I have to my mind is when I'm writing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-ryan/the-only-real-access-that-i-have-to-my-mind-is-when-i-m-writing/) [Kay Ryan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-ryan/) > [Gaps don't/just happen./There is a/generative element/inside them,/a welling motion/ as when cold/waters shoulder/up through/warmer oceans./And where gaps/choose to widen,/coordinates warp,/even in places/constant since/the oldest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-ryan/gaps-don-t-just-happen-there-is-a-generative-element-inside-them-a/) [Kay Ryan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-ryan/) > [“Hide and Seek It's hard not to jump out instead of waiting to be found. It's hard to be alone so long and then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-ryan/hide-and-seek-it-s-hard-not-to-jump-out-instead-of-waiting-to-be/) [Kay Ryan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-ryan/) > [“There are high places that don’t invite us, sharp shapes, glacier-scraped faces, whole ranges whose given names slip off. Any such relation as we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-ryan/there-are-high-places-that-don-t-invite-us-sharp-shapes-glacier/) [Kay Ryan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-ryan/) > [I simply want to celebrate the fact that right near your home, year in and year out, a community college is quietly — and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-ryan/i-simply-want-to-celebrate-the-fact-that-right-near-your-home-year-in-2/) [Kay Ryan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-ryan/) > [“A certain kind of Eden holds us thrall.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-ryan/a-certain-kind-of-eden-holds-us-thrall/) [Kay Ryan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-ryan/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ledge/kay-ryan/#itemlist", "name": "1 Ledge Quotes By Kay Ryan", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“ Ledge Birds that love high trees and winds and riding flailing branches hate ledges as gripless and narrow, so that a tail is not just no advantage but ridiculous, mashed vertical against the wall. 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