Ada Limon Quotes

I'm always talking about how the poems I am most obsessed with are like people: complex and unknowable and with a huge capacity for many different emotions.

I'm always telling my students that the weirdest thing is the truth. I mean, the fact that we get up in the morning and put on clothes is weird.

There's so much rage in the world now and I'm finding poems to be the place where I want to stay. I rage and rage and then write a poem and return to breathing.

I am not obsessing.I am just sitting hereperforating this post-itwith a push-pin.

People have done this before, but not us.

If we could light up the room with pain, we’d be such a glorious fire.

I'm thirty-five and remember all that I've done wrong.