Kristina

“If you were very, very small, smaller than a leprechaun, smaller than a gnome or a fairy, and you lived in a vagina, every time a penis came in there would be a natural disaster. Your dishes would fall out of the cupboards and break and the furniture slide all the way to the other side of the room. It would take a long time to clean up afterwards.”
― Mary Ruefle, The Most of It

“Although all poets aspire to be birds, no bird aspires to be a poet.”
― Mary Ruefle, The Most of It

“If your teachers suggest that your poems are sentimental, that is only half of it. Your poems probably need to be even more sentimental. Don’t be less of a flower, but could you be more of a stone at the same time?”
― Mary Ruefle, Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures

“It is not what a poem says with its mouth, it’s what a poem does with its eyes.”
― Mary Ruefle, Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures