Kay Ryan quotes

It isn't ever delicate to live. (Kay Ryan)
Gaps don't/just happen./There is a/generative element/inside them,/a welling motion/ as when cold/waters shoulder/up through/warmer oceans./And where gaps/choose to widen,/coordinates warp,/even in places/constant since/the oldest maps. View quote
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I have tried to live very quietly, so I could be happy. View quote
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Failure: the renewable resource. View quote
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It's important to have your private enjoyments because sometimes that's all we have. View quote
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Action creates/a taste/for itself. View quote
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It's hard not to jump out instead of waiting to be found. It's hard to be alone so long and then hear someone come around. It's like some form of skin's developed in the air that, rather than have torn, you tear. "Hide and Seek. View quote
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Not even waste/is inviolate./The day misspent,/the love misplaced,/has inside it/the seed of redemption./Nothing is exempt from resurrection. View quote
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Who would have guessed it possible that waiting is sustainable. A place with its own harvest. View quote
Kay Ryan