Donika Kelly Quotes & Sayings

You grow. You are large.
You are a 19th century poem.
All of America is inside you,
a catalogue of lives and land
and burrowing things.
-From "Catalogue — Donika Kelly

Refuse the old means of measurement.
Rely instead on the thrumming wilderness of self. Listen.
-From "Out West — Donika Kelly

You bear a sword and shield, remind me
of her labor, her stoning gaze. What beast

will your blade free next? What call will you loose
from another woman's throat? — Donika Kelly

This road is a winding one.
We left the west flooded
with new loneliness. — Donika Kelly

I have never known a field as wild
as your heart.
-From "Love Poem: Centaur — Donika Kelly