Book Quote by Martha Ronk Download Open image “I prefer always to think that I am creating a book, not a series of stand-alone poems.” — Martha Ronk ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Creating Poetry Series Stand alone Thinking
I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry. — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me. — Edith Södergran Copy Share Image
Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself. — James Schuyler Copy Share Image
I can't imagine having the courage to ask a publisher to do a whole book of my poems. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
As I published books, I realized, that's not really what I want. I don't care about the books as much anymore. I just want… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
I don't spend time thinking about an aesthetic out of which I create or an ideal toward which my body of work is heading. It's amazing, when I read interviews with other poets, to see how articulately they discuss their own writing, as if they were sharing long-held theories on the work of Pope or Keats. I'm happy enough that… — Albert Goldbarth Copy Share
I like it when poems are challenging, when they concern matters important and personal to the author. — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
There's always some reason not to be writing and I regret the times I give in to that, because then writing feels strange -… — Joan Larkin 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
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
