For me, failure has to be acknowledged, needs to be faced in some way. Martha Ronk More Quotes by Martha Ronk More Quotes From Martha Ronk 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 gardenlanguagemean 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 climatereadingspecial 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 gardenmeanthinking 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 flowerteachingwriting Our mind is dark in some way, and so we use rhetoric as a kind of prop or foil. Martha Ronk useminddark Even your own memory changes over time because of circumstances or even because your body changes. Martha Ronk bodycircumstancesmemories A number of poems don't work alone. They need to fit together to work. Martha Ronk togethernumbersneeds If it's a drop of dew, it will dissolve. Martha Ronk dewifs
