Out there people are working and arguing and laughing, living their beautiful, terrible lives, falling in love and having babies and being bored out …

- Kim Addonizio

Love me like a wrong turn on a bad road late at night.

- Kim Addonizio

Maybe you're one of those people who writes poems, but rarely reads them. Let me put this as delicately as I can: If you don't read, your writing is …

- Kim Addonizio

Love's merciless, the way it travels in and keeps emitting light.

- Kim Addonizio

I want to walk like I’m the only woman on earth and I can have my pick.

- Kim Addonizio

I only want to walk a little longer in the cold blessing of the rain, and lift my face to it.

- Kim Addonizio

I'm so in love with you I can't stand up.

- Kim Addonizio

. . . All artists’ work is autobiographical. Any writer’s work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what their concerns are, what their obses…

- Kim Addonizio