Kelli Russell Agodon Quotes

To suffer together is to suffer
with beauty,

And everyone wants to read the poem
we're afraid to write.

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.

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.

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

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 ...

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.

Look up and see the madness
organized in the stars.

Know there's beauty in the words you leave out

I wonder if I might be lonelier
if I didn't have loneliness

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.

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

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

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

In the corner of the painting of success
the signature is blurred