Quotes by Kay Ryan

Explore a curated collection of 12 quotes by Kay Ryan. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

It's important to have your private enjoyments because sometimes that's all we have. — Kay Ryan
Failure: the renewable resource. — Kay Ryan
Action creates/a taste/for itself. — Kay Ryan
Not even waste/is inviolate./The day misspent,/the love misplaced,/has inside it/the seed of redemption./Nothing is exem — Kay Ryan
Gaps don't/just happen./There is a/generative element/inside them,/a welling motion/as when cold/waters shoulder/up thro — Kay Ryan
A too closely watched flower/blossoms the wrong color./Excess attention to the jonquil/turns it gentian. Flowers/need it — Kay Ryan
Forgetting takes space./Forgotten matters displace/as much anything else as/anything else. We must/skirt unlabeled crate — Kay Ryan
If we have not struggled/as hard as we can/at our strongest/how will we sense/the shape of our losses/or know what susta — Kay Ryan
Even in climes/without snow/one cannot go/foward sometimes./Things test you./You are part of/the Donners or/part of the — Kay Ryan
The satisfactions/of agreement are/immediate as sugar--/a melting of the/granular, a syrup/that lingers, shared/not sing — Kay Ryan
One can't work/by limelight.//A bowlful/right at/one's elbow//produces no/more than/a baleful/glow against/the kitchen t — Kay Ryan
I have tried to live very quietly, so I could be happy. — Kay Ryan