Beach Quote 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…

— Mary Ruefle

I hated childhood / I hate adulthood / And I love being alive.

— Mary Ruefle

The industrial world destroys nature not because it doesn’t love it but because it is not afraid of it.

— Mary Ruefle

Every time it starts to snow, I would like to have sex.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Mary Ruefle

We are all one question, and the best answer seems to be love—a connection between things.

— 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…

— Mary Ruefle

Irreverence is a way of playing hooky and remaining present at the same time.

— Mary Ruefle

In the end I would rather wonder than know

— 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…

— Mary Ruefle