Quotes from Ada Limón

Two female horses, retired mares, separated by a sliding barn door, nose each other. Neither of them will get pregnant again, their job is to just be a horse.

making music like resurrection or haunting or just plain need.

Think of how far a voice must have to travel to go beyond the universe. How powerful that voice must be to get there.

I relied on a Miracle Fish, once, in New York City, to tell me my fortune. That was before I knew it was my body's water that moved it, that the massive ocean inside me was what made the fish swim.

I want to try and be terrific. Even for an hour.

What do you dare to gleam out and reflect?

What is it to go to a We from an I ?

Still, how the great middle ticker marched on, and from all its four chambers to all its forgiveness, unlocked the sternum's door, reversed and reshaped until it was a new bright carnal species, more accustomed to grief, and ecstatic at the sight of you.

How do you love? Like a fist. Like a knife.

the one who wants to love you, but often isn't good at even that, the one who doesn't want to be diminished by how much she wants to be yours.

I am beautiful. I am full of love. I am dying.

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.