In one sense, reading is a great waste of time. In another sense, it is a great extension of time, a way for one person to live a thousand and one lives in a single lifespan, to watch the great impersonal universe at work again and again That is why I read: I want everything to be okay. Thatโs why I read when I was a lonely kid and thatโs why I read now that Iโm a scared adult.
Mary RuefleIt is the first experience you ever had of reading a decent poem: 'Oh, somebody else is lonely, too!
Mary RuefleThe industrial world destroys nature not because it doesnโt love it but because it is not afraid of it.
Mary Ruefle