Asian Quote by Shirley Geok-lin Lim Download Open image “Sometimes the taproot and the vines are far apart. Like English and the Asian poem.” — Shirley Geok-lin Lim ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Asian Asian Poem Far apart Poetry Sometimes Taproot Taproot Vines Vines Vines Far
The culture of the hop ... so analagous to the culture and uses of the grape, may afford a theme for future poets. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm,… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Poetry must find ways of breaking distance… all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds. — Giannina Braschi Copy Share Image
I have the feeling that a lot of poets writing now are - they sort of tap dance through it. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Poetry has roots, but they are sometimes cut off and still poetry is written. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Poetry has roots, and sometimes they are aerial. Sometimes they are buried. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just an individual… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
Poems tend to have instructions for how to read them embedded in their language. — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
I don't think that you can say by any stretch of the imagination that all Wisconsin or Brooklyn-based poets write in a particular way.… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower. — Carl Sandburg 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
I think I am against stereotype. Generally, Asian guys are more quiet - they study and have a good work ethic. Generally, I have… — Bobby Lee Copy Share Image
I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor… — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
If you do a black character or a female character or an Asian character, then they aren't just that character. They represent that race… — Dwayne McDuffie Copy Share Image
When I made it, I still didn't wave the flag and say, Yeah go Asian people. I do want people to know that about… — Chad Hugo Copy Share Image
I felt pretty good growing up. I didnt feel a lot of prejudice or racism. But I do remember, if there was going to… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
When you are in America, at least for me, as an immigrant, I try to be as Americanized as I could. I just want… — Jimmy O. Yang Copy Share Image
I always tell Asian actors, especially Filipinos wanting to break into Hollywood, to study, study and study and show their best. I haven't stopped… — Reggie Lee Copy Share Image
The narrative needs to change. Asian-American actresses don't want to be the damsels in distress anymore. We don't want to be saved, especially by… — Jamie Chung Copy Share Image
It's always fun to see faces that are either familiar or resemble yours. I was fascinated by movies like 'Big Trouble in Little China'… — Ng Chin Han Copy Share Image
In view of China's growing military strength and intentions, the best way to safeguard Asia's permanent peace and prosperity is to have all Asian… — Jim Costa Copy Share Image
I think Li Na and some other Chinese ladies have done so many amazing things for Asian tennis. — Kei Nishikori Copy Share Image
I don't want to have people brought in simply because they are black or Asian. — Trevor Phillips Copy Share Image
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