Quotes About Agodon

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

Kelli Russell Agodon

#2. 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

#3. I can't relate to your razzle-dazzle, your wish
for voluptuous when my symphony is spanx.

Kelli Russell Agodon

#4. As I go under, I wonder if there's a reason for art?

Kelli Russell Agodon

#5. Even the propagandists on the radio find it very difficult to really say let alone believe that the world will be a happy place, of love and peace and plenty, and that the lion will lie down with the lamb and everybody will believe anybody.

Gertrude Stein

#6. 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

#7. Life is not dependent upon our classifications and our categories, our science. But we are. We find it interesting and helpful.

Frederick Lenz

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

Kelli Russell Agodon

#9. Know there's beauty in the words you leave out

Kelli Russell Agodon

#10. 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

#11. If you earned money listening to music, I'd be a millionaire.

Michael Kiwanuka

#12. We can never fully impact others to change if there is no evidence of change in our lives.

E'yen A. Gardner

#13. In other words, now that she had rid herself of falsehood, that young woman had only to be herself. Ah, but what is "herself"? I mean, what is a woman? I assure you, I do not know, I do not believe that you know.

Virginia Woolf

#14. 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

#15. Maybe I'm still the mermaid.
Maybe the ocean is your hand.

Kelli Russell Agodon

#16. Such decisions ab extra* are sometimes a wonderful relief to those whose habit it has been to decide, not only for themselves, but for every one else;and occasionally the relaxation of the strain which a character for infallible wisdom brings with it does much to restore health.
*from outside

Elizabeth Gaskell

#17. In the corner of the painting of success
the signature is blurred

Kelli Russell Agodon

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

Kelli Russell Agodon

#19. I wonder if I might be lonelier
if I didn't have loneliness

Kelli Russell Agodon

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

Kelli Russell Agodon

#21. If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar, and would say only what was uppermost in their own minds, after their own individual manner, every man would be interesting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#22. I'm wearing my good shoes, the patent leather ones with the bows ; and my red jacket with the yellow ducklings; and white socks. You don't go to Athens everyday after all.

Eugenia Fakinou

#23. the moon is just another kind of clock

Kelli Russell Agodon

#24. She pours sugar on her life
and drinks the artist's marrow
in the bone of her glass and she lives.

Kelli Russell Agodon

#25. 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

#26. It is possible at any age to discover a lifelong desire you never knew you had.

Robert Breault

#27. Look up and see the madness
organized in the stars.

Kelli Russell Agodon

#28. If this superstitious fear of Spirits were taken away, and with it, Prognostiques from Dreams, false Prophecies, and many other things depending thereon, by which, crafty ambitious persons abuse the simple people, men would be much more fitted then they are for civill Obedience.

Thomas Hobbes

#29. Sometimes darkness
is the beauty I am made of -

Kelli Russell Agodon

#30. 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

#31. I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers.

Charles Dickens

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

Kelli Russell Agodon

#33. 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

#34. The best organizations and the ones that survive economic tsunamis are those with emphatic cultures and managers who are able to step outside themselves and walk in someone else's shoes.

Dev Patnaik

#35. 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

#36. To suffer together is to suffer
with beauty,

Kelli Russell Agodon

#37. Poorly written classes equal unhappy end users. That's not a happy equation.

Brian Overland