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People, the people we really love, where did they come from? What did we do to deserve them? — Mary Ruefle

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

I study nature so as not to do foolish things. — Mary Ruefle

Someone reading a book is a sign of order in the world. — Mary Ruefle

I'm lucky enough to occasionally be able to do something I love - write poems - and unlucky enough that what I love confuses and overwhelms me. — Mary Ruefle

For years the tears fell
without touching the ground.
On this night they hit the floor. — Mary Ruefle

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

A poem is a neutrino - mainly nothing - it has no mass and can pass through the earth undetected. — Mary Ruefle

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

I remember being so young I thought all artists were famous. — Mary Ruefle

In the beginning William Shakespeare was a baby, and knew absolutely nothing. He couldn't even speak. — Mary Ruefle

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

The industrial world destroys nature not because it doesn't love it but because it is not afraid of it. — Mary Ruefle

My happiness is marred only by my failure to attain it. — Mary Ruefle

Words have a love for each other, a desire that culminates in poetry. — Mary Ruefle

Hope wears a strange raincoat
and straps a gun inside. — Mary Ruefle

Metaphor is not, and never has been, a mere literary term. It is an event. — Mary Ruefle

Irreverence is a way of playing hooky and remaining present at the same time. — Mary Ruefle

Art has always been aware of itself as art. — Mary Ruefle

It is not what a poem says with its mouth, it's what a poem does with its eyes. — Mary Ruefle

If we knew the value of suffering, we would ask for it. — Mary Ruefle

In our marginal existence, what else is there but this voice within us, this great weirdness we are always leaning forward to listen to? — Mary Ruefle

We are all one question and the best answer seems to be love
a connection between things. — Mary Ruefle

In the end I would rather wonder than know — Mary Ruefle

I hated childhood / I hate adulthood / And I love being alive. — Mary Ruefle

The wasting of time is the most personal, most private, most intimate form of conversation with oneself, as well as with another. — Mary Ruefle

I like to read because
it kills me. — Mary Ruefle

Poetry is sentimental to begin with. To write a sentimental poem is an act of redundancy. — Mary Ruefle

The words secret and sacred are siblings. — Mary Ruefle

Something unpronounceable followed by a long silence points out my life is becoming a landscape. — Mary Ruefle

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. — Mary Ruefle

It is the first experience you ever had of reading a decent poem: 'Oh, somebody else is lonely, too! — Mary Ruefle