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Hourglass Museum QUOTES

Hourglass Museum QUOTES

1 " 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 , Hourglass Museum

2 " As I go under, I wonder if there’s a reason for art? "

― Kelli Russell Agodon , Hourglass Museum

3 " Yes, it hurts to fall—
ache, tenderness
—but each scar is a sign your system is working. "

― Kelli Russell Agodon , Hourglass Museum

4 " She pours sugar on her life
and drinks the artist’s marrow
in the bone of her glass and she lives. "

― Kelli Russell Agodon , Hourglass Museum

5 " in the corner of the painting of success
the signature is blurred "

― Kelli Russell Agodon , Hourglass Museum

6 " 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 , Hourglass Museum

7 " Sometimes darkness
is the beauty I am made of— "

― Kelli Russell Agodon , Hourglass Museum

8 " To suffer together is to suffer
with beauty, "

― Kelli Russell Agodon , Hourglass Museum

9 " Maybe I’m still the mermaid.
Maybe the ocean is your hand. "

― Kelli Russell Agodon , Hourglass Museum

10 " 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 , Hourglass Museum

11 " 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 , Hourglass Museum

12 " I wonder if I might be lonelier
if I didn't have loneliness "

― Kelli Russell Agodon , Hourglass Museum

13 " To suffer together is to suffer
with beauty... "

― Kelli Russell Agodon , Hourglass Museum

14 " and everyone wants to read the poem
we’re afraid to write. "

― Kelli Russell Agodon , Hourglass Museum

15 " 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 , Hourglass Museum

16 " ...look up and see the madness
organized in the stars. "

― Kelli Russell Agodon , Hourglass Museum

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

― Kelli Russell Agodon , Hourglass Museum

18 " the moon is just another kind of clock "

― Kelli Russell Agodon , Hourglass Museum

19 " Understand, it’s never been easy to live,
when we’re trying to escape ourselves. "

― Kelli Russell Agodon , Hourglass Museum

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

― Kelli Russell Agodon , Hourglass Museum