"There is a world which poets cannot seem……" — Mary Ruefle
"There is a world which poets cannot seem to enter. It is the world everybody else lives in. And the only thing poets seem to have in common is their yearning to enter this world."
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Mary Ruefle
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19 Quotes by Mary Ruefle
Mary Ruefle has 19 quotes on this site.
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Irreverence is a way of playing hooky and remaining present at the same time.
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The industrial world destroys nature not because it doesn’t love it but because it is not afraid of it.
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My happiness is marred only by my failure to attain it.
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Once I witnessed a windstorm so severe two 100-year-old trees were uprooted on the spot. The next day, walking among…
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I remember I was a child, and when I grew up I was a poet. It all happened at sixty…
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I hated childhood / I hate adulthood / And I love being alive.
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In one sense, reading is a great waste of time. In another sense, it is a great extension of time,…
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There’s a difference between being alone and being lonely. Writers know that. I have never met a writer who does…
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The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke…
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If we knew the value of suffering, we would ask for it.
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In the end I would rather wonder than know
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Although all poets aspire to be birds, no bird aspires to be a poet.
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