Quotes by Martha Ronk

Martha Ronk

A number of poems don’t work alone. They need to fit together to work.

Needs

Numbers

Together

Each of us is present, but partially.

Even your own memory changes over time because of circumstances or even because your body changes.

Body

Circumstances

Memories

Everyone had always told me I had to see alpine flowers, since I was writing about flowers, and I had never seen these. So I happened to be teaching a class at the University of Colorado, and I got to go for hikes that took me there. But my perspective was most often down at ground level, trying to see quite tiny exquisite flowers.

Flower

Teaching

Writing

For me, failure has to be acknowledged, needs to be faced in some way.

Needs

Way

Gardens do offer a temporal tableau and certainly mean differently in different eras and indeed geographies (think of the formal gardens in France).

Garden

Mean

Thinking

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.

Body

Moving

Opaque

I can’t remember the past, or I can’t see very clearly, or I’ve gotten older and the person I was isn’t there anymore, and the place I grew up isn’t where I live now.

Grew Up

Past

Remember

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.

Thinking

Training

Way

I prefer always to think that I am creating a book, not a series of stand-alone poems.

Book

Creating

Thinking

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Always Trying

Body

Book

California

Circumstances

Climate

Creating

Dark

Dew

Different

Doors

Eye

Fall

Flower

Garden

Gone

Grew Up

Groups

Ifs

Language

Leaving

Literature

Littles

Mean

Memories

Mind

Moving

Needs

Numbers

Opaque

Past

Perspective

Plant

Play

Queens

Reading

Remember

Revising

Rooms

Slips

Special

Squares

Teaching

Thinking

Three

Together

Training

Trying

Use

Vantage Point

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Quotes by Martha Ronk

Martha Ronk

A number of poems don’t work alone. They need to fit together to work.

Each of us is present, but partially.

Even your own memory changes over time because of circumstances or even because your body changes.

For me, failure has to be acknowledged, needs to be faced in some way.

Gardens do offer a temporal tableau and certainly mean differently in different eras and indeed geographies (think of the formal gardens in France).

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.

I can’t remember the past, or I can’t see very clearly, or I’ve gotten older and the person I was isn’t there anymore, and the place I grew up isn’t where I live now.

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.

I prefer always to think that I am creating a book, not a series of stand-alone poems.

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