Poetry Quote by Mary Karr — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Ten years, she's dead, and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She could no more be gone than gravity or the moon.”

“A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.”

“I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, languidly draping myself over thrift-store furniture -- than I had learning how to assemble words in some discernible order.”

“Wake! For the Sun, who scatter'd into flight”

“No drowning man can know which drop”

“I thought leaving you would be easy,”

“To freeze the moment”

“I have defined poetry as a 'passionate pursuit of the Real.”

“The very essence of I is being killed by You.”