“One of the reasons I like immersing myself in different texts, putting myself in the company of other writers, is that they do change your vocabulary. They change what you write about or they change the length of lines.” WritingDifferentReasonLinesCompanyLengthVocabulary Author:Martha Ronk
“I know that in some ways I operate from a kind of antiquated interest in imagery, while many contemporary poets are not so interested in imagery. I think part of it is my training, and just my visual sense of things.” ThinkingKnowsWayKindInterestPoetTrainingContemporaryVisualsImagery Author:Martha Ronk
“I spend a lot of time revising. I'm not somebody who can move slowly.” MovingRevising Author:Martha Ronk
“I can't move my body slowly. I can't move the line slowly. So I end up with way too much, often opaque to me later.” WayI CanEndsBodyMovingLinesToo MuchOpaque Author:Martha Ronk
“A number of poems don't work alone. They need to fit together to work.” NeedsTogetherNumbersFit Author:Martha Ronk
“I prefer always to think that I am creating a book, not a series of stand-alone poems.” ThinkingBookCreatingSeriesStand Alone Author:Martha Ronk
“The days start to be charged not because tomorrow you're leaving, but because in three weeks you're leaving. The future impinges. So you start to think about the frame.” ThinkingThreeWeekTomorrowLeaving Author:Martha Ronk
“You can get a sense of the wonderful power of framing by holding your fingers up in a kind of square, walking around the room and framing it differently - how that changes the nature of what you think the room is like.” ThinkingKindRoomsWonderfulWalkingFingersSquaresFraming Author:Martha Ronk
“Looking out a window from different vantage points changes what you see and therefore what you write.” WritingDifferentWindowVantage Point Author:Martha Ronk
“I'm in California, so I know people who are natives who tell me there's lots of weather here, but it's not the same as being in Vermont. Since I grew up on the East Coast I miss that weather all the time. You'd think I'd get used to not having it, but I don't.” PeopleThinkingKnowsUsedMissingGrewGrew UpEastWeatherCaliforniaCoastEast CoastVermont Author:Martha Ronk