Li-Young Lee Quotes

The problem with memory is that is changes whatever it touches. It Li-Young Lee Picture Quote

The problem with memory is that is changes whatever it touches. It

— Li-Young Lee

I am that last, that final thing, the body in a white sheet listening, Li-Young Lee Picture Quote

I am that last, that final thing, the body in a white sheet listening,

— Li-Young Lee

Poetry is the language of extremity. Poetry is a transfer of potency. Li-Young Lee Picture Quote

Poetry is the language of extremity. Poetry is a transfer of potency.

— Li-Young Lee

Could it be in longing we are most ourselves? Li-Young Lee Picture Quote

Could it be in longing we are most ourselves?

— Li-Young Lee

The lyric self is the self; the narrative self is not. Li-Young Lee Picture Quote

The lyric self is the self; the narrative self is not.

— Li-Young Lee

Brimming. That’s what it is, I want to get to a place where my sentences enact brimming. Li-Young Lee Picture Quote

Brimming. That’s what it is, I want to get to a place where my sentences enact brimming.

— Li-Young Lee

Memory is sweet. Even when it’s painful, memory is sweet. Li-Young Lee Picture Quote

Memory is sweet. Even when it’s painful, memory is sweet.

— Li-Young Lee

To pull the metal splinter from my palm my father recited a Li-Young Lee Picture Quote

To pull the metal splinter from my palm my father recited a

— Li-Young Lee

A poem is like a score for the human voice. Li-Young Lee Picture Quote

A poem is like a score for the human voice.

— Li-Young Lee

A bruise, blue in the muscle, you impinge upon me. As bone Li-Young Lee Picture Quote

A bruise, blue in the muscle, you impinge upon me. As bone

— Li-Young Lee

While all bodies share the same fate, all voices do not. Li-Young Lee Picture Quote

While all bodies share the same fate, all voices do not.

— Li-Young Lee

The knowledge that it takes to write a poem gets burnt up in the writing of the poem. Li-Young Lee Picture Quote

The knowledge that it takes to write a poem gets burnt up in the writing of the poem.

— Li-Young Lee

Maybe being winged means being wounded by infinity. Li-Young Lee Picture Quote

Maybe being winged means being wounded by infinity.

— Li-Young Lee

That’s what I want, that kind of recklessness where the poem is Li-Young Lee Picture Quote

That’s what I want, that kind of recklessness where the poem is

— Li-Young Lee

There are days we live as if death were nowhere in the Li-Young Lee Picture Quote

There are days we live as if death were nowhere in the

— Li-Young Lee

People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when Li-Young Lee Picture Quote

People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when

— Li-Young Lee

I don’t mind suffering as long as it’s really about something. I Li-Young Lee Picture Quote

I don’t mind suffering as long as it’s really about something. I

— Li-Young Lee

Memory revises me. Even now a letter comes from a place I Li-Young Lee Picture Quote

Memory revises me. Even now a letter comes from a place I

— Li-Young Lee

Our bodies look solid, but they arent. Were like a fountain. A Li-Young Lee Picture Quote

Our bodies look solid, but they arent. Were like a fountain. A

— Li-Young Lee

A door jumps out from shadows, then jumps away. This is what Li-Young Lee Picture Quote

A door jumps out from shadows, then jumps away. This is what

— Li-Young Lee

In writing poetry, all of one’s attention is focused on some inner voice. Li-Young Lee Picture Quote

In writing poetry, all of one’s attention is focused on some inner voice.

— Li-Young Lee

Some things never leave a person: scent of the hair of one Li-Young Lee Picture Quote

Some things never leave a person: scent of the hair of one

— Li-Young Lee

I’ve been thinking about something for a long time, and I keep Li-Young Lee Picture Quote

I’ve been thinking about something for a long time, and I keep

— Li-Young Lee

And I never believed that the multitude / of dreams and many words were vain. Li-Young Lee Picture Quote

And I never believed that the multitude / of dreams and many words were vain.

— Li-Young Lee

Every time you write a poem it’s apocalyptic. You’re revealing Li-Young Lee Picture Quote

Every time you write a poem it’s apocalyptic. You’re revealing

— Li-Young Lee

We suffer each other to have each other a while. Li-Young Lee Picture Quote

We suffer each other to have each other a while.

— Li-Young Lee

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