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 mean, it's hard to talk about death without realizing that's our end too, right? I am constantly aware of death. It's not that I want to be, but it… - Ada Limon
I mean, it's hard to talk about death without realizing that's our end too, right? I am constantly aware of death. It's not that I want to be, but it…
- Ada Limon
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… - Ada Limon
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…
I have been writing. Even when I intend not to write, I find myself writing. I'm currently in a place where I should be putting together the fifth bo… - Ada Limon
I have been writing. Even when I intend not to write, I find myself writing. I'm currently in a place where I should be putting together the fifth bo…
Precise, graceful, and generous, the poems in SuperLoop, seem to be born out of a deep, careful attention and a profound compassion. Sometimes the qu… - Ada Limon
Precise, graceful, and generous, the poems in SuperLoop, seem to be born out of a deep, careful attention and a profound compassion. Sometimes the qu…
All night I dreamt of bonfires and burn piles and ghosts of men, and spirits behind those birds of flame. I cannot tell anymore when a door opens or … - Ada Limon
All night I dreamt of bonfires and burn piles and ghosts of men, and spirits behind those birds of flame. I cannot tell anymore when a door opens or …
I think, as poets, we are in the odd position of constantly defending our art form. Which is funny and also sort of invigorating, too. No one really … - Ada Limon
I think, as poets, we are in the odd position of constantly defending our art form. Which is funny and also sort of invigorating, too. No one really …
Poems have always been a place for questions for me. Not answers. And I have a lot of questions these days. One of the reasons I've felt so connected… - Ada Limon
Poems have always been a place for questions for me. Not answers. And I have a lot of questions these days. One of the reasons I've felt so connected…
Language can also be play and music and beauty and desire and grief and rage and truth without always having to be message-driven or purely functiona… - Ada Limon
Language can also be play and music and beauty and desire and grief and rage and truth without always having to be message-driven or purely functiona…
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 em… - Ada Limon
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 em…
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