Writing Quotes by Martha Ronk

Martha Ronk

Everyone had always told me I had to see alpine flowers, since I was writing about flowers, and I had never seen these. So I happened to be teaching a class at the University of Colorado, and I got to go for hikes that took me there. But my perspective was most often down at ground level, trying to see quite tiny exquisite flowers.

Flower

Teaching

Writing

Martha Ronk

I think those of us who use language are always trying for this, trying to keep everything from floating away by trying to write about it despite failure.

Always Trying

Thinking

Writing

Martha Ronk

Looking out a window from different vantage points changes what you see and therefore what you write.

Different

Vantage Point

Writing

Martha Ronk

Often poets fall into groups that exclude others, and don’t pay attention to those who write in different ways. It seems so limited to me.

Fall

Groups

Writing

Martha Ronk

One of the reasons I like immersing myself in different texts, putting myself in the company of other writers, is that they do change your vocabulary. They change what you write about or they change the length of lines.

Different

Vocabulary

Writing

Martha Ronk

One of the things I’ve always thought is that if I were to write a poetics, it would have to do with the poetics of failure, and the way in which all the things that you claim or that you try for are already based on the limits of language.

Trying

Way

Writing

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Always Trying

Body

Book

California

Circumstances

Climate

Creating

Dark

Dew

Different

Doors

Eye

Fall

Flower

Garden

Gone

Grew Up

Groups

Ifs

Language

Leaving

Literature

Littles

Mean

Memories

Mind

Moving

Needs

Numbers

Opaque

Past

Perspective

Plant

Play

Queens

Reading

Remember

Revising

Rooms

Slips

Special

Squares

Teaching

Thinking

Three

Together

Training

Trying

Use

Vantage Point

Vocabulary

Want

Way

Weather

Writing

Writing Quotes by Martha Ronk

I think those of us who use language are always trying for this, trying to keep everything from floating away by trying to write about it despite failure.

Looking out a window from different vantage points changes what you see and therefore what you write.

Often poets fall into groups that exclude others, and don’t pay attention to those who write in different ways. It seems so limited to me.

One of the reasons I like immersing myself in different texts, putting myself in the company of other writers, is that they do change your vocabulary. They change what you write about or they change the length of lines.

One of the things I’ve always thought is that if I were to write a poetics, it would have to do with the poetics of failure, and the way in which all the things that you claim or that you try for are already based on the limits of language.

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