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

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

“I am not obsessing.”

“I like the lady horses best,”

“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.”

“What if, instead of carrying”

“Here it is:”

“Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.”

“Foggy nights bring some comfort.”

“...the wet brush of snowflakes was like your kisses everywhere ...”

“There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or three hundred years ago, says that which lies close to my own soul, that which I also had wellnigh thought and said.”

“Into the nothingness of scorn and noise,”

“Here is a story that’s stranger than strange.”