Vern Rutsala quotes

They said daydreaming was against the law, but some of us escaped, slipping out windows and over cyclone fences, some of us flying away with heads like balloons. We taught our dogs to love the flavor of homework and became expert forgers of our parents’ signatures. We knew they were teaching us how to die but some of us said no in our stealthy and stubborn ways.
-- Vern Rutsala

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The language is spare and under control and has a genuine immediacy...The poems never preach but are lined out with a cool and therefore devastating effect
-- Vern Rutsala

#Language #Immediacy #Genuine

Don't let's go to the dogs tonight, For mother will be there.

I have a dog and sometimes I'll be the littlest kid with my dog and marvel at his ears and his nose and how he looks at me. If he died, I'd bawl like a baby.

I don't know how I'm gonna pick up a bat again. I just need to be away for a bit and play with my dogs.

I have a really great family, and when Im not filming, I go home and walk the dogs, take out the garbage, clean my room, all that stuff. My family and my friends keep me in line, and make sure I dont get crazy.

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

I've been living in Portland for five months and I'm not sure how I feel about it. I probably won't really know for years because that's how it works right? You don't really develop feelings about a place till you've left it. It's like a girl or a dog.

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing.

The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.