A number of poems don't work alone. They need to fit together to work. Martha Ronk More Quotes by Martha Ronk More Quotes From Martha Ronk Shakespeare, of course, makes us ever aware of transience, not only in the sonnets, but also powerfully in his plays - spectacles for a brief period of time and then gone, as when Prospero describes the pageant fading, leaving "not a rack behind." Martha Ronk leaving gone play I'm always somehow drawn to that sense of how fragile things are and how a garden means so differently depending upon whose language you happen to be in or whose century you happen to be in. Martha Ronk garden language mean I've always been interested in the fragility of things, and with special urgency now because of climate change, but also because of the accidents of reading. Martha Ronk climate reading special Gardens do offer a temporal tableau and certainly mean differently in different eras and indeed geographies (think of the formal gardens in France). Martha Ronk garden mean thinking 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. Martha Ronk flower teaching writing Our mind is dark in some way, and so we use rhetoric as a kind of prop or foil. Martha Ronk use mind dark Even your own memory changes over time because of circumstances or even because your body changes. Martha Ronk body circumstances memories If it's a drop of dew, it will dissolve. Martha Ronk dew ifs
