Quotes by Mary Ruefle

Mary Ruefle

[On filling out a grant application:] I seek an extended period of time, free from all distractions, so that I might be free to be distracted.

Distraction

Might

Time

A poem is a finished work of the mind, it is not the work of a finished mind.

Finished

Finished Work

Mind

A poem is a neutrino – mainly nothing – it has no mass and can pass through the earth undetected.

Earth

Mass

Neutrinos

All of the heroes you see falling down were filmed trying to stand up.

Fall

Hero

Trying

Although all poets aspire to be birds, no bird aspires to be a poet.

Aspire

Bird

Poet

Art has always been aware of itself as art.

Art

Every creative act is an act of hypocrisy and violence. You may have to think about it for a while, but I am sure you can discover your own.

Creativity

Hypocrisy

Thinking

Every time it starts to snow, I would like to have sex.

Sex

Snow

I am convinced that the first lyric poem was written at night, and that the moon was witness to the event and that the event was witness to the moon. For me, the moon has always been the very embodiment of lyric poetry.

Lyric Poetry

Moon

Night

I hated childhood / I hate adulthood / And I love being alive.

Childhood

Hate

Love Is

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Able

Absolutely Nothing

Advice

Answers

Art

Artist

Asks

Aspire

Baby

Beach

Believe

Bird

Book

Childhood

Children

Common

Connections

Creativity

Deserve

Desire

Differences

Distraction

Doe

Earth

Ends

Equal

Errors

Events

Exceed

Existence

Facts

Fall

Finished

Finished Work

Firsts

Foolish

Giving

Hate

Hero

Historical

Humanity

Hypocrisy

Ideas

Ifs

Intimate

Irreverence

Kids

Kill Me

Knows

Landscape

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Quotes by Mary Ruefle

Mary Ruefle

[On filling out a grant application:] I seek an extended period of time, free from all distractions, so that I might be free to be distracted.

A poem is a finished work of the mind, it is not the work of a finished mind.

A poem is a neutrino – mainly nothing – it has no mass and can pass through the earth undetected.

All of the heroes you see falling down were filmed trying to stand up.

Although all poets aspire to be birds, no bird aspires to be a poet.

Art has always been aware of itself as art.

Every creative act is an act of hypocrisy and violence. You may have to think about it for a while, but I am sure you can discover your own.

Every time it starts to snow, I would like to have sex.

I am convinced that the first lyric poem was written at night, and that the moon was witness to the event and that the event was witness to the moon. For me, the moon has always been the very embodiment of lyric poetry.

I hated childhood / I hate adulthood / And I love being alive.

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