There’s a difference between being alone and being lonely. Writers kno…

Mary Ruefle
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There’s a difference between being alone and being lonely. Writers know that. I have never met a writer who does not crave to be alone. We have to be alone to do what we do. ✨ The Life-Long Sentence. Interview with with Tony Leuzzi, brooklynrail.org. July 15, 2014.
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Something unpronounceable followed by a long silence points out my life is becoming a landscape. ✨ Mary Ruefle (1989). The Adamant, p.13, University of Iowa Press
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There is a world which poets cannot seem to enter. It is the world everybody else lives in. And the only thing poets seem to have in common is their yearning to enter this world.

There’s a difference between being alone and being lonely. Writers know that. I have never met a writer who does not crave to be alone. We have to be alone to do what we do. ✨ The Life-Long Sentence. Interview with with Tony Leuzzi, brooklynrail.org. July 15, 2014.

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