Poetry Quote by Ada Limon Download Open image ““I am not obsessing. I am just sitting here perforating this post-it with a push-pin.”” — Ada Limon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry
“The obsession is a distraction; it protects you from thinking about something else,” — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“Is there even any such thing as dedication without obsession?” — Petra Durst-Benning Copy Share Image
“When there's just one pin left standing, you start to see things a little more clearly.” — Lexie Hill Copy Share Image
“...but I am doing that thing I always do-the obsessing about what I don't have, the ignoring where I am now.” — Amy Reed Copy Share Image
“... Unlike some people, I don't have the urge to go sticking my fingers in it.” — Rachel Hawkins Copy Share Image
“Obsessive love wears down both its target and the obsessor.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“we try mentally to grab onto it or push it away. That sets the worry response in motion.” — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
“The only way to cure an obsession is to become obsessed with something else.” — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
Precise, graceful, and generous, the poems in SuperLoop, seem to be born out of a deep, careful attention and a profound compassion. Sometimes the… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
“My mother was born on Valentine’s Day and because of that, I have oddly always loved Valentine’s Day. I have friends who absolutely hate… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
Language can also be play and music and beauty and desire and grief and rage and truth without always having to be message-driven or… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
I have been writing. Even when I intend not to write, I find myself writing. I'm currently in a place where I should be… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
I think, as poets, we are in the odd position of constantly defending our art form. Which is funny and also sort of invigorating,… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
“I denied it, this new land. But love, I’ll concede this: whatever state you are, I’ll be that state’s bird, the loud, obvious blur… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
“Think crucial hanging. Think crayon orange. There is one low, leaning heart-shaped globe left and dearest, can you tell, I am trying to love… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
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… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
“I wanted to be a hummingbird. It made sense to long for rapid wings and the ability to hover always— to be Huitzilopochtli taming… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
“Now, there's a twisty summer storm outside, and I desire nothing but this storm to come. The calm voice on the TV tells us… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
“Life is like that. You think you’re just slogging along and then something reminds you that just getting up in the morning and choosing… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
I'm always telling my students that the weirdest thing is the truth. I mean, the fact that we get up in the morning and… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
