“We were more mastering the art of sharing, than critiquing. It was less about take this apart and it was more, you know, respond to this,…how did it play upon you, what does it make you think of.” Sara Ruhl talking about her correspondence with poet Max Ritvo and her book – Letters from Max, a book of friendship. Complied after Max’s death from cancer in 2016. ( His mother and I agree) “The more Max is in the ether, the more his language and his spirit are out in the world, the more people are receiving what he had to give, that’s all to the good.”
“Sometimes there are periods in your life where you think you’re not working, you’re not making progress, you think you’re in a little cul de sac and then to realize oh actually you’ve been working all along…you’re always doing your work even though it might not look like it.”
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere; before him I may think aloud.
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