Quotes by : Kay Ryan

If we have not struggled/as hard as we can/at our strongest/how will we sense/the shape of our losses/or....

Failure: the renewable resource.

The satisfactions/of agreement are/immediate as sugar--/a melting of the/granular, a syrup/that lingers,....

Not even waste/is inviolate./The day misspent,/the love misplaced,/has inside it/the seed of redemption./Nothing....

One can't work/by limelight.//A bowlful/right at/one's elbow//produces no/more than/a baleful/glow against/the....

Even in climes/without snow/one cannot go/foward sometimes./Things test you./You are part of/the Donners....

Action creates/a taste/for itself.

There are high places that don’t invite us, sharp shapes, glacier-scraped faces, whole ranges whose....

I have tried to live very quietly, so I could be happy.

Forgetting takes space./Forgotten matters displace/as much anything else as/anything else. We must/skirt....