[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"$fxBgUC8XBa6vCfciO4rglHq_mq9G7izcGcI3BVuAGBOE":3,"$fVZLXTSXitU3zJb6PWnXeg6DZJYNt808mtxWO7KqzCaA":18},{"author":4,"tags":13},{"author_id":5,"author_name":6,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"bio":9,"short_bio":10,"slug":11,"image_url":12},12352,"Kay Ryan","K",33,"The Best of It is a notable work by Kay Ryan, an American poet and writer who also works as a teacher. Ryan composes in English and has received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, one of the most formally recognized awards her career has produced.\n\nRyan was born on September 21, 1945, in San Jose, California. She pursued her education at Antelope Valley College and subsequently at the University of California, Los Angeles. A citizen of the United States, she has worked as both a poet and a teacher, and her writing in English has earned sustained institutional recognition over the course of her career.\n\nThe range of awards Ryan has received reflects attention from multiple professional and public contexts. She was named a MacArthur Fellow and received a Guggenheim Fellowship. The Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize and the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism extend that recognition across poetry and criticism respectively, while the National Humanities Medal represents a form of public acknowledgment at the national level.\n\nAmong the honors Ryan has accumulated, the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry stands as the most prominently cited. Her education, which began at Antelope Valley College and continued at the University of California, Los Angeles, preceded a career as a poet, writer, and teacher that produced The Best of It, the work most closely associated with her name, and the full range of distinctions that followed.","The Best of It is a notable work by Kay Ryan, an American poet and writer who also works as a teacher. Ryan composes in English and has received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, one of the most formally recognized awards her career has produced.","kay-ryan",null,[14],{"tag_id":15,"tag_name":16,"tag_count":17},264,"inspiration",9,{"quotes":19,"pagination":83},[20,29,35,41,47,53,59,65,71,77],{"id":21,"quote_text":22,"author_id":5,"source_id":23,"has_image":24,"author":25,"source":26,"quote_tag":27,"commentary":28},3191461,"Small presses take chances. Chances are at the heart of all the literature we later know as great.",6,false,{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],"**The Backstory**\n\nThis quote is reminiscent of Kay Ryan's experiences with small presses during her early career as a poet. In the 1970s and 1980s, Ryan struggled to gain recognition in the literary world, but she found support from smaller presses that were willing to take risks on unconventional works. This era was marked by Ryan's own experimentation with form and language.\n\n**The Hidden Insight**\n\nAt first glance, the quote appears to celebrate the role of small presses in nurturing innovative literature. However, upon closer examination, it reveals a more profound truth: that \"chances\" are not just opportunities for creative expression but also potential failures that must be endured. The paradox lies in the fact that true greatness often emerges from the willingness to take calculated risks and confront uncertainty.\n\n**How to Use This**\n\nTo apply this mindset today, consider embracing the tension between risk-taking and perfectionism. Rather than striving for a polished product, modern professionals and creatives can learn from Ryan's approach by taking deliberate chances on innovative ideas, even if they may not yield immediate success. By doing so, they will increase their chances of producing work that truly resonates with others.",{"id":30,"quote_text":31,"author_id":5,"source_id":23,"has_image":24,"author":32,"source":33,"quote_tag":34,"commentary":12},3191454,"Tenderness and Rot Tenderness and rot share a border. And rot is an aggressive neighbor whose iridescence keeps creeping over. No lessons can be drawn from this however. One is not two countries. One is not meat corrupting. It is important to stay sweet and loving.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":36,"quote_text":37,"author_id":5,"source_id":23,"has_image":24,"author":38,"source":39,"quote_tag":40,"commentary":12},3191448,"It’s important to have your private enjoyments because sometimes that’s all we have.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":42,"quote_text":43,"author_id":5,"source_id":23,"has_image":24,"author":44,"source":45,"quote_tag":46,"commentary":12},3191443,"A certain kind of Eden holds us thrall.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":48,"quote_text":49,"author_id":5,"source_id":23,"has_image":24,"author":50,"source":51,"quote_tag":52,"commentary":12},3191437,"Who would have guessed it possible that waiting is sustainable. A place with its own harvest.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":54,"quote_text":55,"author_id":5,"source_id":23,"has_image":24,"author":56,"source":57,"quote_tag":58,"commentary":12},3191430,"It isn’t ever delicate to live.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":60,"quote_text":61,"author_id":5,"source_id":23,"has_image":24,"author":62,"source":63,"quote_tag":64,"commentary":12},3191423,"The only real access that I have to my mind is when I’m writing.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":66,"quote_text":67,"author_id":5,"source_id":23,"has_image":24,"author":68,"source":69,"quote_tag":70,"commentary":12},3191417,"A lot of the job that one has to do as a writer is to protect the thing that doesn’t match the world.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":72,"quote_text":73,"author_id":5,"source_id":23,"has_image":24,"author":74,"source":75,"quote_tag":76,"commentary":12},3191411,"As for reality, I don’t even have any interest in that word.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":78,"quote_text":79,"author_id":5,"source_id":23,"has_image":24,"author":80,"source":81,"quote_tag":82,"commentary":12},3191399,"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.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"currentPage":84,"totalPages":85,"totalItems":8,"itemsPerPage":86},1,4,10]