If we knew the value of suffering, we would ask for it. - Mary Ruefle

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What I really value in Angela Merkel is that she has never tried to tap the brakes on my élan, my enthusiasm. She tells me: I'm not going to play the role of the person who has already experienced and seen everything.

Mary Ruefle

If we knew the value of suffering, we would ask for it.

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I hated childhood
I hate adulthood
And I love being alive.

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If you have any idea for a poem, an exact grid of intent, you are on the wrong path, a dead-end alley, at the top of a cliff you haven't even climbed. This is a lesson that can only be learned by trial and error.

Climbed, Errors, Ideas, Path, Trial And Error, Wrong

The industrial world destroys nature not because it doesn’t love it but because it is not afraid of it.

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When I first encountered the poems of Jon Woodward, I was stunned into the state that is my life's joy-I was in the presence of the inimitable. Uncanny Valley extends that experience-almost into another dimension. These apocalyptic, pixilated poems forge a mythology of our ravaged culture, one that might have been written in the future. If you want poetry to give you a persimmon on a plate, look elsewhere; if you want to know what happens when seven trees fall on the highway and the story is told by a stutterer, this is the book, and it could only have been written by Woodward.

Book, Fall, Give, Giving, Mythology, Poems

My happiness is marred only by my failure to attain it.

Attain, Failure, Happiness, Marred

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It often is a terrible insult to some families if one of the kids turns out to be an artist and that's one way to really shake up the family if you haven't got nerve enough to turn into a homosexual.

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