Quotes by : Mary Ruefle

A boy from Brooklyn used to cruise on summer nights.As soon as he’d hit sixty he’d hold his hand....

I study nature so as not to do foolish things.

I have become an orchidwashed in on the salt white beach.Memory,what can I make of it nowthat might please....

It looks like it’s wasting time, but literature is actually the ultimate time-saver – because it....

It is not what a poem says with its mouth, it’s what a poem does with its eyes.

Choice, and all its attendant energy, is a characteristic of youth. It is before one chooses that one....

In one sense, reading is a great waste of time. In another sense, it is a great extension of time, a....