"Could it be in longing we are most…" — Li-Young Lee

"Could it be in longing we are most ourselves?"

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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…
People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning…
That's what I want, that kind of recklessness where the poem is even ahead of you. It's like riding a…
Every time you write a poem it’s apocalyptic. You’re revealing who you really are to yourself.
Our bodies look solid, but they arent. Were like a fountain. A fountain of water looks solid, but you can…
And I never believed that the multitude / of dreams and many words were vain.
I've been thinking about something for a long time, and I keep noticing that most human speech-if not all human…
In writing poetry, all of one's attention is focused on some inner voice.
The problem with memory is that is changes whatever it touches. It is never that accurate. As a result, I…
I am that last, that final thing, the body in a white sheet listening,
We suffer each other to have each other a while.
A poem is like a score for the human voice.

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