Tenderness and Rot Tenderness and rot share a border. And rot is an aggressive neighbor whose iridescence keeps creeping over. No lessons can be drawn from this however. One is not two countries. One is not meat corrupting. It is important to stay sweet and loving.
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…
Failure: the renewable resource. - Kay Ryan
Failure: the renewable resource.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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