Deborah Keenan Quotes

• This path, this road that is one perfect straight line even if it goes around the world through heat and fog and rain and snow and it's my life I keep thinking. It's my life.

  Deborah Keenan

  Rain, Thinking, Fog

  Deborah Keenan (2011). “Willow Room, Green Door: New and Selected Poems”, p.100, Milkweed Editions

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• In poetry you can leave out everything but the truth.

  Deborah Keenan

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• My children's faces are private candles i sometimes worship at.

  Deborah Keenan

  Children, Faces, Worship

  Deborah Keenan (2007). “Willow Room, Green Door: New and Selected Poems”

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• My son called to me that God was inside his red fire engine. He wanted to show me. I did move as fast as I could, spilling like water through the kitchen door into a summer day, but God had left by the time I got there. My son smiled, told me I'd missed him by seconds.

  Deborah Keenan

  Summer, Moving, Son

  Deborah Keenan (2011). “Willow Room, Green Door: New and Selected Poems”, p.85, Milkweed Editions

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• The longing to be holy makes us weep, and we trust tears since they are made of water and come from our body, a double blessing.

  Deborah Keenan

  Blessing, Water, Tears

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