"In the end I would rather wonder than…" — Mary Ruefle
"In the end I would rather wonder than know"
—
Mary Ruefle
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
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.
-
Although all poets aspire to be birds, no bird aspires to be a poet.
See all 19 quotes by Mary Ruefle »
More End Quotes
This quote is filed under End Quotes,
one of 16,664 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
-
Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came…
— Hannah Arendt
-
On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is…
— Hank Aaron
-
I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately…
— J. J. Abrams
-
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
— Aristotle
-
A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
— Aristotle
-
Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
— Aristotle
-
If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
-
I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came…
— Dido Armstrong
-
I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
— Neil Armstrong
-
I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I…
— Darren Aronofsky
-
The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end.…
— Chinua Achebe
See all 16,664 End Quotes »