I have become an orchid washed in on the salt white beach. Memory, what can I make of it now that might please you- this life, already wasted and still strewn with miracles?
A poem is a finished work of the mind, it is not the work of a finished mind. - Mary Ruefle
A poem is a finished work of the mind, it is not the work of a finished mind.
- 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? - 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?
Once I witnessed a windstorm so severe two 100-year-old trees were uprooted on the spot. The next day, walking among the wreckage, I found the friabl… - Mary Ruefle
Once I witnessed a windstorm so severe two 100-year-old trees were uprooted on the spot. The next day, walking among the wreckage, I found the friabl…
The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke and protect, tell the sec… - Mary Ruefle
The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke and protect, tell the sec…
I am convinced that the first lyric poem was written at night, and that the moon was witness to the event and that the event was witness to the moon.… - Mary Ruefle
I am convinced that the first lyric poem was written at night, and that the moon was witness to the event and that the event was witness to the moon.…
I hated childhood / I hate adulthood / And I love being alive. - Mary Ruefle
I hated childhood / I hate adulthood / And I love being alive.
I'm lucky enough to occasionally be able to do something I love - write poems - and unlucky enough that what I love confuses and overwhelms me. - Mary Ruefle
I'm lucky enough to occasionally be able to do something I love - write poems - and unlucky enough that what I love confuses and overwhelms me.
We are all one question, and the best answer seems to be love—a connection between things. - Mary Ruefle
We are all one question, and the best answer seems to be love—a connection between things.
Now I will give you a piece of advice. I will tell you something that I absolutely believe you should do, and if you do not do it you will never be a… - Mary Ruefle
Now I will give you a piece of advice. I will tell you something that I absolutely believe you should do, and if you do not do it you will never be a…
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