Kate Camp > Quotes

“Do you sometimes feel you might be painted onto the world, find yourself standing like an angel in a Dutch interior, with nothing to do?”
― Kate Camp, How to Be Happy Though Human: New and Selected Poems

“And if I say that when I see myself in the window of the bus I resemble an elephant I don’t mean that unlovingly. Just that I look surprisingly human with my long face and my memories.”
― Kate Camp, How to Be Happy Though Human: New and Selected Poems

“The house was light and moved when we did. With my arm above my head as I lay I might have been a ballerina bent over in a music box.”
― Kate Camp, How to Be Happy Though Human: New and Selected Poems

“He’s shocked to find I am middle aged. I’m not shocked. Inside me are the Russian dolls of the women and girls I’ve been before each more beautiful and unhappy than the current.”
― Kate Camp, How to Be Happy Though Human: New and Selected Poems

“Outside insects or maybe frogs were making the noise of phone calls. Vertical blinds drifted like bars being moved for a great escape. When you slapped a mosquito against the wall you shook the place.”
― Kate Camp, How to Be Happy Though Human: New and Selected Poems