Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz Quotes

#1. Let's feed out tears to the dragons of misery, but let's never crawl in their mouths.

Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

#2. One day we wake up and we are broken. We taste it
in our morning kiss. Our mirror tells us the same stories
in separate hours: things will never be the same.

Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

#3. You can't control whether or not you have talent. You can't control whether or not your work will be recognized or valued. But what you can control is how much work you put your art-both in terms of creating it and in terms of getting it out there-and that is where I try to focus my energy.

Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

#4. Andrea Gibson is a truly American poet, or rather, she represents the America I want to live in. Her work lights a candle to lead us where we need to go.

Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

#5. You,
quiet and alone in your kitchen, cigaretteless.
Me, left tapping on your rain-streaked window,

wanting you to know that everything is going
to get better, and really hoping that it does.

Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

#6. Not everything which comes from the birth parts of a woman is a human being.

Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

#7. This poem is the poem I'm writing because
we aren't speaking, and it is making my heart hurt
so bad that sometimes I can't make it up off the floor.

Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz