"Brimming. That's what it is, I want to……" — Li-Young Lee
"Brimming. That's what it is, I want to get to a place where my sentences enact brimming."
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19 Quotes by Li-Young Lee
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To pull the metal splinter from my palm my father recited a story in a low voice. I watched his…
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People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning…
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That's what I want, that kind of recklessness where the poem is even ahead of you. It's like riding a…
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Every time you write a poem it’s apocalyptic. You’re revealing who you really are to yourself.
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Our bodies look solid, but they arent. Were like a fountain. A fountain of water looks solid, but you can…
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And I never believed that the multitude / of dreams and many words were vain.
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I've been thinking about something for a long time, and I keep noticing that most human speech-if not all human…
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In writing poetry, all of one's attention is focused on some inner voice.
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The problem with memory is that is changes whatever it touches. It is never that accurate. As a result, I…
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Could it be in longing we are most ourselves?
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I am that last, that final thing, the body in a white sheet listening,
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We suffer each other to have each other a while.
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More Brimming Quotes
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The media know exactly what they're doing, focusing our attention on Arsenio's hairdo. We need to keep our brains brimming…
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Love's over brimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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I try hard to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When…
— Bill W.
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That’s why our TVs are brimming with so much hot man-on-pan action. You can’t channel surf for long without seeing…
— Stephen Colbert
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Come, drink the mystic wine of Night, Brimming with silence and the stars; While earth, bathed in this holy light,…
— Louis Untermeyer
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Lehman uses many conveyances—including the prose poem, the sestina, and curt rhymes—to travel across the writing life of a poet…
— Ken Tucker
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A heartwarming tale of Christmas past that's chock full of all the wit and hilarity we admire in America's favorite…
— Unknown Author
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Life is tough and brimming with loss, and the most we can do about it is to glimpse ourselves clear…
— Roger Angell
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Life is brimming with things to be discovered and known, skills to be mastered, challenges to be overcome. And when…
— Christopher Kimball
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The least flower, with brimming cup, may stand and share its dew drop with another near.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Once you were just insentient cells, no more aware of anything than your liver is now. Today you are brimming…
— Colin McGinn
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Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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