33 Quotes by Kay Ryan

[P]oetry makes nothing happen. That's the relief of it. And the reason why nothing can substitute for it.

The day misspent,the love misplaced,has inside itthe seed of redemption.Nothing is exemptfrom resurrection.

CROWN Too much rain loosens trees. In the hills giant oaks fall upon their knees. You can touch parts you have no right to – places only birds should fly to.

The day misspent, the love misplaced, has inside it the seed of redemption. Nothing is exempt from resurrection.

What keeps me writing is that I can only know through writing. My major sense organ is apparently a pencil.

I simply want to celebrate the fact that right near your home, year in and year out, a community college is quietly – and with very little financial encouragement – saving lives and minds. I can’t think of a more efficient, hopeful or egalitarian machine, expect perhaps the bicycle.

As for reality, I don’t even have any interest in that word.

A lot of the job that one has to do as a writer is to protect the thing that doesn’t match the world.

The only real access that I have to my mind is when I’m writing.