"Maybe being winged means being wounded by infinity." — Li-Young Lee
"Maybe being winged means being wounded by infinity."
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Li-Young Lee
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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 Infinity Quotes
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one of 458 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen…
— Honore de Balzac
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms…
— William Blake
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If a thing loves, it is infinite.
— William Blake
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The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.
— Joseph Brodsky
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Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst…
— Lord Byron
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And there is the headlight, shining far down the track, glinting off the steel rails that, like all parallel lines,…
— Bruce Catton
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You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all…
— Deepak Chopra
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This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's…
— Jean Cocteau
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Poetry...the deepest abyss of infinity.
— Sally-Ann Roberts
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For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a…
— Blaise Pascal
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