Poetry Quote by Ada Limon — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I like the lady horses best,”

“All I’ve been working on is napping, and maybe being kinder to others, to myself.”

“What if, instead of carrying”

“I imagine what it must be like to stay hidden, disappear in the dusky nothing and stay still in the night. It’s not sadness, though it may sound like it. I’m thinking about people and trees and how I wish I could be silent more, be more tree than anything else, less clumsy and loud, less crow, more cool white pine, and how it’s hard not to always want something else, not just to let the savage grass grow.”

“I denied it,”

“I am not obsessing.”

“Ignorance and virtue suck on the same straw...”

“هَذا الّذي تَعرِفُ البَطْحاءُ وَطْأتَهُ، وَالبَيْتُ يعْرِفُهُ وَالحِلُّ وَالحَرَمُ”

“How do you find the right one in a world of 7 billion people? First—you become the right one. The rest will follow.”

“Brushing a girl’s hair”

“Before getting translated, a poem already gets shrunk or expanded within the ‘sphere of intellect’ of the translator in the original language, and it again gets shrunk or expanded within the ‘sphere of intellect’ of the translator in the target language.”

“I notice you have the assault proof vest -”