Kay Ryan

Quotes

• “If we have not struggled/as hard as we can/at our strongest/how will we sense/the shape of our losses/or know what susta...”
• “Even in climes/without snow/one cannot go/foward sometimes./Things test you./You are part of/the Donners or/part of the ...”
• “Gaps don't/just happen./There is a/generative element/inside them,/a welling motion/as when cold/waters shoulder/up thro...”
• “One can't work/by limelight.//A bowlful/right at/one's elbow//produces no/more than/a baleful/glow against/the kitchen t...”
• “Forgetting takes space./Forgotten matters displace/as much anything else as/anything else. We must/skirt unlabeled crate...”
• “A too closely watched flower/blossoms the wrong color./Excess attention to the jonquil/turns it gentian. Flowers/need it...”
• “Not even waste/is inviolate./The day misspent,/the love misplaced,/has inside it/the seed of redemption./Nothing is exem...”
• “The satisfactions/of agreement are/immediate as sugar--/a melting of the/granular, a syrup/that lingers, shared/not sing...”
• “It's important to have your private enjoyments because sometimes that's all we have.”
• “Action creates/a taste/for itself.”
• “Failure: the renewable resource.”