Walking Among Quotes by Mary Ruefle

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Mary Ruefle has 19 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Irreverence is a way of playing hooky and remaining present at the same time.
• The industrial world destroys nature not because it doesn’t love it but because it is not afraid of it.
• My happiness is marred only by my failure to attain it.
• Once I witnessed a windstorm so severe two 100-year-old trees were uprooted on the spot. The next day, walking among the wreckage,…
• I remember I was a child, and when I grew up I was a poet. It all happened at sixty miles an…
• I hated childhood / I hate adulthood / And I love being alive.
• In one sense, reading is a great waste of time. In another sense, it is a great extension of time, a way…
• There is a world which poets cannot seem to enter. It is the world everybody else lives in. And the only thing…
• There’s a difference between being alone and being lonely. Writers know that. I have never met a writer who does not crave…
• The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke and protect,…
• If we knew the value of suffering, we would ask for it.
• In the end I would rather wonder than know

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