What did Mary Ruefle mean by: Although all poets aspire to be birds, no bird aspires to be a poet. - Mary Ruefle Poet · USA Copy
+ People, the people we really love, where did they come from? What did we do to deserve them? Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mary Ruefle, Deserve, 0 - Mary Ruefle Poet · USA
+ If we knew the value of suffering, we would ask for it. Feraz Zeid, August 9, 2023December 12, 2023, Mary Ruefle, Suffering, 0 - Mary Ruefle Poet · USA
+ I hated childhood / I hate adulthood / And I love being alive. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mary Ruefle, Childhood, Hate, Love, 0 - Mary Ruefle Poet · USA
+ I study nature so as not to do foolish things. Feraz Zeid, October 4, 2023December 26, 2023, Mary Ruefle, Fool, Study, 0 - Mary Ruefle Poet · USA
+ We are all one question, and the best answer seems to be love—a connection between things. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mary Ruefle, Connections, Questions And Answers, 0 - Mary Ruefle Poet · USA
+ My happiness is marred only by my failure to attain it. Feraz Zeid, September 10, 2023December 26, 2023, Mary Ruefle, God, 0 - Mary Ruefle Poet · USA
+ A poem is a finished work of the mind, it is not the work of a finished mind. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mary Ruefle, Finished, Mind, 0 - Mary Ruefle Poet · USA
+ Irreverence is a way of playing hooky and remaining present at the same time. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mary Ruefle, 0 - Mary Ruefle Poet · USA
O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile: So have all sages said, all poets sung. - Jean Ingelow Poet · England
Reign, and keep life in this our deep desireOur only greatness is that we aspire. - Jean Ingelow Poet · England
I sit at my window and the words fly past me like birds — with God’s help I catch some. - Jean Rhys Writer · Dominica
I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become. - Jean Toomer Writer
The poet will not be satisfied with recording, the poet will have to transform. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
