Mary Ruefle is an American poet known for her unique style and profound themes. Her work is characterized by its concise language and deep insights, exploring themes of nature, memory, time, and the essence of human existence. She has won numerous awards for her poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
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Source: Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
Source: Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
“It is not what a poem says with its mouth, it’s what a poem does with its eyes.”
Source: Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
Source: Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
“I remember being so young I thought all artists were famous.”
Source: Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
“Art has always been aware of itself as art.”
Source: Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
Source: Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
Source: Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
Source: Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
Source: Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
Source: Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
“A poem is a neutrino - mainly nothing - it has no mass and can pass through the earth undetected.”
Source: Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
“A poem is a finished work of the mind, it is not the work of a finished mind.”
Source: Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
Source: Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
“Words have a love for each other, a desire that culminates in poetry.”
Source: Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
“Poetry is sentimental to begin with. To write a sentimental poem is an act of redundancy.”
Source: Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
Source: Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
Source: Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
Source: Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
“Metaphor is not, and never has been, a mere literary term. It is an event.”
Source: Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
“People, the people we really love, where did they come from? What did we do to deserve them?”
Source: Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
Source: Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
“Something unpronounceable followed by a long silence points out my life is becoming a landscape.”
Source: The Adamant
“I study nature so as not to do foolish things.”
Source: Selected poems
“I like to read because it kills me.”
Source: Apparition Hill
“Irreverence is a way of playing hooky and remaining present at the same time.”
Source: Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
Source: Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
“All of the heroes you see falling down were filmed trying to stand up.”
Source: The Adamant
“My happiness is marred only by my failure to attain it.”
Source: Trances of the Blast
Source: Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
“I hated childhood / I hate adulthood / And I love being alive.”
Source: Trances of the Blast
Source: Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
“In the end I would rather wonder than know”
Source: Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
“Although all poets aspire to be birds, no bird aspires to be a poet.”
“We are all one question, and the best answer seems to be love—a connection between things.”
Source: Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures