[On filling out a grant application:] I seek an extended period of time, free from all distractions, so that I might be free to be distracted.
Mary RuefleIf 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.
Mary Ruefle