I have a muse who's very powerful, but I'm still a hopeless deadbeat of a poet. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Even after the mothering dropped because my son grew up, the writing - the muse - was always the third wheel, the… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I'm surrounded by men, and the muse is complaining that I have neglected her. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
From the world of the muse and writing, there will come, hopefully, the book. You're right, for me, that the muse is… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Some Asian American male scholars have claimed this muse to be Guong Goong, God of Literature, and, simultaneously, although not coincidentally or… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
There are a couple of poems I've written with masculine muses, very often the muse to me is a female. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Rather, the collapsing between act and condition, "I am" with "I do," feels like authenticity, an authenticity of being. The muse rewarded… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Philosophy is a bad master for poetry; religion worse; and politics self-serving will never serve the Muse. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Wouldn't that be wonderful if I could do that? And that way, I could walk with the muse, rather than walk without… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
This distraction is what one wants, which is very, very bad for the muse, because the muse hates not being in the… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
It's as if I'm setting aside the husband and son, you know, the patriarchal world, for the world of the muse. This… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
When I write, I put aside the heterosexual world to admit a muse that is a woman-loving-woman female. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
The Chinese traditionally have revered age and longevity - I have one and hope for the other! - so, in Taipei, a… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I'm not sure why my muse is female, except when I am deliberately playing against that figure. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
What happens when a female writer invokes a female muse? Does something else happen? With Sappho's figures of desire, we have a… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
When you're a female poet, would you, therefore, invoke a male muse? When nuns get consecrated into their vocations, they become brides… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
It's why muse is so impatient with me. I don't ever go to her until after the teaching or whatever is over. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
[My muse] she's impatient with me, because I don't do what I should do: sit down and write. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Now that I'm more middle class, I have access to consumer goods. I do enjoy feminine frippery, feminine doo-da, stuff like that. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
The poem might come to you as you're preparing to teach a lecture, right? And when you say, "no" to that occasion, that poem… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Once you stop talking about the female body empowering itself vis-à-vis male forays or invasions or male demands or the necessity to respond to… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I have a muse who's very powerful, but I'm still a hopeless deadbeat of a poet. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Free verse is chained in sentence-to-sentence links and breaks free in line breaks. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I feel compassionate, because I know [students] all have to go down this road of suffering and it's going to be tough. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Even after the mothering dropped because my son grew up, the writing - the muse - was always the third wheel, the lowest on… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
If you've been in a symbolic struggle long enough, even when the struggle is over, you don't know it's over. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
"I want to be always happy," Maxine Hong Kingston announces . But, as this interview makes clear, for me, it was the desire to… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I'm in my 60s, and a cancer scare just makes you more aware of mortality. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Crows appear in many of my new unpublished poems. In these walks, they take on a symbolic life apart from their irritating, undeniable, interruptive… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
People called me a tomboy. That was the term used then. I was very much someone who was comfortable in male clothing, and even… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
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