Startlement Quotes

“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