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

Mary Ruefle

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“My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.”
“I am not looking to be understood or liked. Like me or not, I don't care. I am an outsider, that is the way I was brought up.”
“Her voice whispering love soothes him. They'd never done that before. Weren't that type of family. Except now he doesn't know what kind of family they are. What word is it that can define them? What would they call his family in the textbooks? Broken? He comes from a broken home. The Mackees can't be put back together again. There are too many pieces of them missing.”
“If you want something to play with go find yourself a toy, baby, my time is too expensive and I'm not a little boy.”
“Western artists stand as humans looking at nature; Asian artists try to be in nature. You become one with nature rather than painting a portrait of it. That's a big shift.”

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“You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.”
“Things don't happen because they're bad or good, else all eggs would be addled or none at all, and at the most it is but six to the dozen. There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.”
“He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.”

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