A too closely watched flower/blossoms the wrong color./Excess attention to the jonquil/turns it gentian. Flowers/need it tranquil to get/their hues right. Some/only open at midnight.
I have tried to live very quietly, so I could be happy. - Kay Ryan
I have tried to live very quietly, so I could be happy.
- Kay Ryan
It isn't ever delicate to live. - Kay Ryan
It isn't ever delicate to live.
I don't think any poetry is written that isn't primarily written to the self, in a way... I'm always talking to myself. But I seem to want somebody e… - Kay Ryan
I don't think any poetry is written that isn't primarily written to the self, in a way... I'm always talking to myself. But I seem to want somebody e…
What keeps me writing is that I can only know through writing. My major sense organ is apparently a pencil. - Kay Ryan
What keeps me writing is that I can only know through writing. My major sense organ is apparently a pencil.
Failure: the renewable resource. - Kay Ryan
Failure: the renewable resource.
Who would have guessed it possible that waiting is sustainable. A place with its own harvest. - Kay Ryan
Who would have guessed it possible that waiting is sustainable. A place with its own harvest.
As for reality, I don't even have any interest in that word. - Kay Ryan
As for reality, I don't even have any interest in that word.
A lot of the job that one has to do as a writer is to protect the thing that doesn't match the world. - Kay Ryan
A lot of the job that one has to do as a writer is to protect the thing that doesn't match the world.
Small presses take chances. Chances are at the heart of all the literature we later know as great. - Kay Ryan
Small presses take chances. Chances are at the heart of all the literature we later know as great.
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