Mary Ruefle Quotes

• 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 friable nests of birds, completely intact and unharmed on the ground. That the featherweight survive the massive, that this reversal of fortune takes place among us — that is what haunts me. I don’t know what it means.

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  Media, Años, Dos

  Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.206, Wave Books

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• In the end I would rather wonder than know

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  Wonder, Ends, Knows

  Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.101, Wave Books

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• A poem is a finished work of the mind, it is not the work of a finished mind.

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  Mind, Finished Work, Finished

  Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.222, Wave Books

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• We are all one question, and the best answer seems to be love—a connection between things.

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  Connections, Answers, Seems

  Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.197, Wave Books

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• In one sense, reading is a great waste of time. In another sense, it is a great extension of time, a way for one person to live a thousand and one lives in a single lifespan, to watch the great impersonal universe at work again and again That is why I read: I want everything to be okay. That’s why I read when I was a lonely kid and that’s why I read now that I’m a scared adult.

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  Lonely, Reading, Kids

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• In our marginal existence, what else is there but this voice within us, this great weirdness we are always leaning forward to listen to?

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  Voice, Weirdness, Existence

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• Los orígenes de la poesía están claramente enraizados en la oscuridad, en el secreto, en el encantamiento, en los hechizos que deben a la vez invocar y proteger, contar el secreto y guardarlo.

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  Secret, Obscurity, Protect

  Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.82, Wave Books

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• in the beginning William Shakespeare was a baby, and knew absolutely nothing. He couldn't even speak.

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  Baby, Speak, Absolutely Nothing

  Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.249, Wave Books

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• Estoy convencido de que el primer poema lírico se escribió de noche, y que la luna fue testigo del acontecimiento y que el acontecimiento fue testigo de la luna. Para mí, la luna siempre ha sido la encarnación misma de la poesía lírica.

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  Night, Moon, Lyric Poetry

  Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.12, Wave Books

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• 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.

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  Writing, Lucky, Able

  Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.69, Wave Books

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• If you have any idea for a poem, an exact grid of intent, you are on the wrong path, a dead-end alley, at the top of a cliff you haven't even climbed. This is a lesson that can only be learned by trial and error.

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  Errors, Ideas, Path

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• 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 witer. It is a certain truth. When your pencil is dull, sharpen it. And when your pencil is sharp, use it until it is dull again.

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  Believe, Giving, Advice

  "Madness, Rack, and Honey". Book by Mary Ruefle, therumpus.net. August 7, 2012.

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• Words have a love for each other, a desire that culminates in poetry.

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  Deseo

  Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.92, Wave Books

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• In life, the number of beginnings is exactly equal to the number of endings ... In poetry, the number of beginnings so far exceeds the number of endings that we cannot even conceive of it.

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  Numbers, Equal, Exceed

  Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.1, Wave Books

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• Me he convertido en una orquídea
  arrastrada en la playa blanca de sal.
  La memoria,
  ¿qué puedo hacer de ella ahora
  que pueda complacerte
  esta vida, ya desperdiciada
  y aún sembrada de milagros?

  Mary Ruefle

  Beach, Memories, Orchids

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• [On filling out a grant application:] I seek an extended period of time, free from all distractions, so that I might be free to be distracted.

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  Time, Might, Distraction

  Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.137, Wave Books

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• Although all poets aspire to be birds, no bird aspires to be a poet.

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  Bird, Poet, Aspire

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• the wasting of time is the most personal, most private, most intimate form of conversation with oneself, as well as with another.

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  Time, Leisure, Intimate

  Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.126, Wave Books

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• Hay una diferencia entre estar solo y sentirse solo. Los escritores lo saben. Nunca he conocido a un escritor que no anhele estar solo. Tenemos que estar solos para hacer lo que hacemos.

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  Lonely, Differences, Doe

  "The Life-Long Sentence". Interview with with Tony Leuzzi, brooklynrail.org. July 15, 2014.

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• The words secret and sacred are siblings.

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  Sibling, Secret, Sacred

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• Art has always been aware of itself as art.

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  Arte

  Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.68, Wave Books

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• People, the people we really love, where did they come from? What did we do to deserve them?

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  People, Deserve

  Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.97, Wave Books

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• It is the first experience you ever had of reading a decent poem: 'Oh, somebody else is lonely, too!

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  Lonely, Reading, Firsts

  Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.95, Wave Books

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• Metaphor is not, and never has been, a mere literary term. It is an event.

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  Events, Metaphor, Term

  Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.131, Wave Books

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• 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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  World, Common, Poet

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