Kelli Russell Agodon is an American poet born in 1969. Her poetry is celebrated for its unique style and profound emotional expression. Agodon's works often explore themes of personal experience, nature, and the human condition.
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“America breaks my heart some days and some days it breaks itself into two.”
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“If we never have enough love, we have more than most.”
Source: Dialogues with Rising Tides
Source: Hourglass Museum
Source: Dialogues with Rising Tides
“maybe life is a cobweb, not an organizational chart.”
Source: Dialogues with Rising Tides
“...look up and see the madness organized in the stars.”
Source: Hourglass Museum
“We cannot predict our tragedies.”
Source: Dialogues with Rising Tides
Source: Dialogues with Rising Tides
“Maybe I’m still the mermaid. Maybe the ocean is your hand.”
Source: Hourglass Museum
“When someone says the world is mostly water, I say, And poets.”
Source: Dialogues with Rising Tides
“and everyone wants to read the poem we’re afraid to write.”
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“I wonder if I might be lonelier if I didn't have loneliness”
Source: Hourglass Museum
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“the moon is just another kind of clock”
Source: Hourglass Museum
Source: Hourglass Museum
Source: Hourglass Museum
“Yes, it hurts to fall— ache, tenderness —but each scar is a sign your system is working.”
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“No one expects perfection, except when they do, which is always.”
Source: Dialogues with Rising Tides
“She pours sugar on her life and drinks the artist’s marrow in the bone of her glass and she lives.”
Source: Hourglass Museum
“in the corner of the painting of success the signature is blurred”
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“Time is a long sunrise where we wait for our haloes.”
Source: Dialogues with Rising Tides
“Even a small amount of nectar is a greater sum than none.”
Source: Dialogues with Rising Tides
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“Sometimes we make mistakes and call them coincidences.”
Source: Dialogues with Rising Tides
“Sometimes darkness is the beauty I am made of—”
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“I place solitude in a frame on my desk and call it, the one I love.”
“Understand, it's never been easy to live, when we're trying to escape ourselves.”