“Shakespeare, of course, makes us ever aware of transience, not only in the sonnets, but also powerfully in his plays - spectacles for a brief period of time and then gone, as when Prospero describes the pageant fading, leaving "not a rack behind."” PlayCoursesBehindsGonePeriodsLeavingSonnetFadingRacksSpectaclesPageantTransienceProspero Author:Martha Ronk
“I'm always somehow drawn to that sense of how fragile things are and how a garden means so differently depending upon whose language you happen to be in or whose century you happen to be in.” MeanHappensLanguageCenturyGardenFragileFragile Things Author:Martha Ronk
“I think about the kinds of gardens that Queen Elizabeth put up. She made gardens in the shape of an "E," for Elizabeth, just one more way in which she used symbolism to solidify her reign: appearing as the Virgin Queen, for example, or wearing a dress embroidered with eyes and ears to indicate that she knew all that was going on in her castle; she had spies.” ThinkingWayKindMadeEyeUsedExampleShapesGardenEarsDressesQueensJust OneReignVirginsSpyCastlesAppearingSymbolismQueen ElizabethWearing A Dress Author:Martha Ronk
“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