You Be You Quotes

“Refuse the old means of measurement.
Rely instead on the thrumming wilderness of self. Listen.
-From "Out West”
― Donika Kelly, Bestiary: Poems

“You grow. You are large.
You are a 19th century poem.
All of America is inside you,
a catalogue of lives and land
and burrowing things.
-From "Catalogue”
― Donika Kelly, Bestiary: Poems

“Why would you pretend to not be you, when you are created as you?”
― Nathan Hong

“It's okay not to be perfect, because no matter what anyone tells you, no one is - thinking you are and actually being so are two very different things”
― Christina Casino