Kelli Russell Agodon Quotes & Sayings

Yes, it hurts to fall
ache, tenderness
- but each scar is a sign your system is working. — Kelli Russell Agodon

A friend comes over with a Ouija board.
It spells out: Bourbon. Where's the band?
Just because you're dead doesn't mean you can't
have fun. — Kelli Russell Agodon

Maybe if I could slip into Sylvia's mind, sort out the spices in her rack, alphabetize them and dust them off. Maybe then I'd understand how it's the little things that pull you under. — Kelli Russell Agodon

She pours sugar on her life
and drinks the artist's marrow
in the bone of her glass and she lives. — Kelli Russell Agodon

A crowd of drunken lovers. Newspaper
hats, new couples falling from couches and love-
seats - the pleasure remembered,
never the regret. — Kelli Russell Agodon

We must live with our hearts
in our hands - like Mary.
We must hold the blood-
red heart and no be disappointed
when others look away. — Kelli Russell Agodon

For everyone who never smiled in school
photos, for all who've wandered city streets
not knowing the where they were
or feeling alone, I've packed kindness. — Kelli Russell Agodon

In the corner of the painting of success
the signature is blurred — Kelli Russell Agodon

the moon is just another kind of clock — Kelli Russell Agodon

Sometimes darkness
is the beauty I am made of - — Kelli Russell Agodon

And everyone wants to read the poem
we're afraid to write. — Kelli Russell Agodon

Know there's beauty in the words you leave out — Kelli Russell Agodon

I wonder if I might be lonelier
if I didn't have loneliness — Kelli Russell Agodon

I place solitude in a frame on my desk and call it, the one I love. — Kelli Russell Agodon

I can't relate to your razzle-dazzle, your wish
for voluptuous when my symphony is spanx. — Kelli Russell Agodon

I don't believe we should carry backup
plans in life's suitcase
they're too easy to unpack
like living a life in yoga pants,
so comfortable our hips spread
into new timezones ... — Kelli Russell Agodon

To suffer together is to suffer
with beauty, — Kelli Russell Agodon

As I go under, I wonder if there's a reason for art? — Kelli Russell Agodon

I escape disaster by writing a poem with a joke in it:
The past, present, and future walk into a bar - it was tense. — Kelli Russell Agodon

Look up and see the madness
organized in the stars. — Kelli Russell Agodon

If you think you are the mermaid, think again.
You are the ocean holding the mermaid afloat,
trying to change the world one dolphin at a time. — Kelli Russell Agodon

Understand, it's never been easy to live,
when we're trying to escape ourselves. — Kelli Russell Agodon

Maybe I'm still the mermaid.
Maybe the ocean is your hand. — Kelli Russell Agodon

Like the kite that caught up to the sky,
painted with clouds, I lost track of it,
but it was connected
by string, something I was holding,
something I could always
bring back. — Kelli Russell Agodon