"Irreverence is a way of playing hooky and……" — Mary Ruefle
"Irreverence is a way of playing hooky and remaining present at the same time."
—
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:
-
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
-
Although all poets aspire to be birds, no bird aspires to be a poet.
See all 19 quotes by Mary Ruefle »
More Hooky Quotes
This quote is filed under Hooky Quotes,
one of 7 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
See all 7 Hooky Quotes »