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> [“I search the language for a word to tell you how red is red.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lisel-mueller/i-search-the-language-for-a-word-to-tell-you-how-red-is-red/)

[Lisel Mueller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lisel-mueller/)

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## More by Lisel Mueller

> [“What can I say to convince you the Houses of Parliament dissolve night after night to become the fluid dream of the Thames? I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lisel-mueller/what-can-i-say-to-convince-you-the-houses-of-parliament-dissolve/)

[Lisel Mueller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lisel-mueller/)

> [I am imprinted with the whole sense of European history, especially German history, going back to World War I, which really destroyed all the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lisel-mueller/i-am-imprinted-with-the-whole-sense-of-european-history-especially/)

[Lisel Mueller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lisel-mueller/)

> [Poetry, for me, is the answer to, 'How does one stay sane when private lives are being ransacked by public events?' It's something that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lisel-mueller/poetry-for-me-is-the-answer-to-how-does-one-stay-sane-when-private/)

[Lisel Mueller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lisel-mueller/)

> [When I was in college, I did do some writing of poetry, somewhat inspired, I think at that time, by Carl Sandburg, because English…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lisel-mueller/when-i-was-in-college-i-did-do-some-writing-of-poetry-somewhat/)

[Lisel Mueller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lisel-mueller/)

> [What luxury, to be so happy that we can grieve over imaginary lives.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lisel-mueller/what-luxury-to-be-so-happy-that-we-can-grieve-over-imaginary-lives/)

[Lisel Mueller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lisel-mueller/)

> [“By the time I arrive at evening, / they have just settled down to rest; / already invisible, they are turning / into the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lisel-mueller/by-the-time-i-arrive-at-evening-they-have-just-settled-down-to-rest/)

[Lisel Mueller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lisel-mueller/)

> [Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lisel-mueller/everything-is-autobiography-even-if-one-writes-something-that-is/)

[Lisel Mueller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lisel-mueller/)

> [“Late Hours" On summer nights the world moves within earshot on the interstate with its swish and growl, and occasional siren that sends chills…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lisel-mueller/late-hours-on-summer-nights-the-world-moves-within-earshot-on-the/)

[Lisel Mueller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lisel-mueller/)

> [“What happened is, we grew lonely living among the things, so we gave the clock a face, the chair a back, the table four…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lisel-mueller/what-happened-is-we-grew-lonely-living-among-the-things-so-we-gave/)

[Lisel Mueller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lisel-mueller/)

> [“I will not return to a universe of objects that do not know each other, as if islands were not the long lost children…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lisel-mueller/i-will-not-return-to-a-universe-of-objects-that-do-not-know-each/)

[Lisel Mueller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lisel-mueller/)

> [“I search the language for a word to tell you how red is red.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lisel-mueller/i-search-the-language-for-a-word-to-tell-you-how-red-is-red/)

[Lisel Mueller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lisel-mueller/)

> [“Someone was always leaving and never coming back. The wooden houses wait like old wives along this road; they are everywhere, abandoned, leaning, turning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lisel-mueller/someone-was-always-leaving-and-never-coming-back-the-wooden-houses/)

[Lisel Mueller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lisel-mueller/)

> [“What happened is, we grew lonely living among the things, so we gave the clock a face, the chair a back, the table four…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lisel-mueller/what-happened-is-we-grew-lonely-living-among-the-things-so-we-gave-2/)

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> [How swiftly the strained honey of afternoon light flows into darkness and the closed bud shrugs off its special mystery in order to break…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lisel-mueller/how-swiftly-the-strained-honey-of-afternoon-light-flows-into-darkness/)

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> [“Whatever was bound to happen in my story did not happen. But I know there are rules that cannot be broken. Perhaps a name…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lisel-mueller/whatever-was-bound-to-happen-in-my-story-did-not-happen-but-i-know/)

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