Startlement Quotes

“light comes up over the mountains and it is and it is and it is.”
― Ada Limon, Startlement: New and Selected Poems

“When he goes to the beach he unfolds his folding chair to face the parking lot. This giant wave of nature behind him, or rather, to which he turns his back.”
― Ada Limon, Startlement: New and Selected Poems

“Are we scared to discover that in fact, we are not alone?”
― Ada Limon, Startlement: New and Selected Poems

“Language, I love it, but it is of the air
and we are of the earth.”
― Ada Limon, Startlement: New and Selected Poems

“If you sit by the riverside, you see a culmination
of all things upstream. We know now,
we were never at the circle’s center, instead
all around us something is living or trying to live.”
― Ada Limon, Startlement: New and Selected Poems

“I am not fading, but becoming ungovernable.”
― Ada Limon, Startlement: New and Selected Poems