"In our marginal existence, what else is there……" — Mary Ruefle
"In our marginal existence, what else is there but this voice within us, this great weirdness we are always leaning forward to listen to?"
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19 Quotes by Mary Ruefle
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…
- I remember I was a child, and when I grew up I was a poet. It all happened at sixty…
- 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,…
- There is a world which poets cannot seem to enter. It is the world everybody else lives in. And the…
- There’s a difference between being alone and being lonely. Writers know that. I have never met a writer who does…
- The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke…
- 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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