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

“Here it is:”

“I am not obsessing.”

“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 like the lady horses best,”

“I denied it,”

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

“If I could I would nail these hands to the edges of stars. I would sacrifice this body to the sky hoping to resurrect as someone spiteful enough to not care about you.”

“Of course we had hoped that he would take up his sword as part of the President's war on poetry. The time is ripe for that. The root causes of poetry have been studied and studied. And now that we know that pockets of poetry still exist in our great country, especially in the large urban centers, we ought to be able to wash it out totally in one generation, if we put our backs into it.”

“Ξέρω: κηρύγματα καὶ ρητορεῖες πάλι, θὰ πεῖς.”

“Stars in the night,' he said. 'Something something something something, some delight”

“I love to move like a mouse inside this puzzle for the body, balancing the wish to be lost with the need to be found.”

“The dark side of the butterflies:”