7 Quotes by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

Andrea Gibson is a truly American poet, or rather, she represents the America I want to live in. Her work lights a candle to lead us where we need to go.

You can’t control whether or not you have talent. You can’t control whether or not your work will be recognized or valued. But what you can control is how much work you put your art-both in terms of creating it and in terms of getting it out there-and that is where I try to focus my energy.

Not everything which comes from the birth parts of a woman is a human being.

Place no dependence on your own genius, even if you possess it. If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate talents, industry will supply their deficiency – nothing is denied to well directed labor; nothing is obtained without it.

And Mary Oliver said, I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.

How she said I love you, and I have it recorded. How I do not listen to it. How I know it’s there.

I lost my life’s narrator.