4 Quotes by Ruth Padel

Every choice is a loss. The past is not where you left it.

Poetry or science, what matters is saying it how you see it. Saying precisely what and how you saw, and no more. In science, poetry or describing a journey, accuracy is all you can do. Saying it as you saw.

Collect yourself: to smother what you feel, recall to order, summon in one place; making, like Orpheus, a system against loss.

What we feel is mortal, and won’t come again.