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> [In one sense, reading is a great waste of time. In another sense, it is a great extension of time, a way for one person to live a thousand and one lives in a single lifespan, to watch the great…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-ruefle/in-one-sense-reading-is-a-great-waste-of-time-in-another-sense-it-is/)

[Mary Ruefle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-ruefle/)

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## More by Mary Ruefle

> [Now I will give you a piece of advice. I will tell you something that I absolutely believe you should do, and if you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-ruefle/now-i-will-give-you-a-piece-of-advice-i-will-tell-you-something-that/)

[Mary Ruefle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-ruefle/)

> [I hated childhood / I hate adulthood / And I love being alive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-ruefle/i-hated-childhood-i-hate-adulthood-and-i-love-being-alive/)

[Mary Ruefle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-ruefle/)

> [The industrial world destroys nature not because it doesn’t love it but because it is not afraid of it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-ruefle/the-industrial-world-destroys-nature-not-because-it-doesn-t-love-it/)

[Mary Ruefle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-ruefle/)

> [Every time it starts to snow, I would like to have sex.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-ruefle/every-time-it-starts-to-snow-i-would-like-to-have-sex/)

[Mary Ruefle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-ruefle/)

> [I remember I was a child, and when I grew up I was a poet. It all happened at sixty miles an hour and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-ruefle/i-remember-i-was-a-child-and-when-i-grew-up-i-was-a-poet-it-all/)

[Mary Ruefle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-ruefle/)

> [Yes, the mistrust of poetry has a long history, for a variety of reasons, but they all come down to sentiment and invention over…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-ruefle/yes-the-mistrust-of-poetry-has-a-long-history-for-a-variety-of/)

[Mary Ruefle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-ruefle/)

> [“If there is any irreverence in my own work, I hope it is the irreverence I bear in mistrusting my own sincere self, which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-ruefle/if-there-is-any-irreverence-in-my-own-work-i-hope-it-is-the/)

[Mary Ruefle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-ruefle/)

> [We are all one question, and the best answer seems to be love—a connection between things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-ruefle/we-are-all-one-question-and-the-best-answer-seems-to-be-love-a/)

[Mary Ruefle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-ruefle/)

> [Every creative act is an act of hypocrisy and violence. You may have to think about it for a while, but I am sure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-ruefle/every-creative-act-is-an-act-of-hypocrisy-and-violence-you-may-have/)

[Mary Ruefle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-ruefle/)

> [I have become an orchid washed in on the salt white beach. Memory, what can I make of it now that might please you-…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-ruefle/i-have-become-an-orchid-washed-in-on-the-salt-white-beach-memory-what/)

[Mary Ruefle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-ruefle/)

> [Irreverence is a way of playing hooky and remaining present at the same time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-ruefle/irreverence-is-a-way-of-playing-hooky-and-remaining-present-at-the/)

[Mary Ruefle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-ruefle/)

> [In the end I would rather wonder than know](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-ruefle/in-the-end-i-would-rather-wonder-than-know/)

[Mary Ruefle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-ruefle/)

> [The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke and protect, tell the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-ruefle/the-origins-of-poetry-are-clearly-rooted-in-obscurity-in/)

[Mary Ruefle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-ruefle/)

> [There is a world which poets cannot seem to enter. It is the world everybody else lives in. And the only thing poets seem…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-ruefle/there-is-a-world-which-poets-cannot-seem-to-enter-it-is-the-world/)

[Mary Ruefle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-ruefle/)

> [the wasting of time is the most personal, most private, most intimate form of conversation with oneself, as well as with another.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-ruefle/the-wasting-of-time-is-the-most-personal-most-private-most-intimate/)

[Mary Ruefle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-ruefle/)

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