Poetry Quote by Li-Young Lee — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“a bruise, blue”

“My tongue remembers your wounded flavor.”

“That's what I want, that kind of recklessness where the poem is even ahead of you. It's like riding a horse that's a little too wild for you, so there's this tension between what you can do and what the horse decides it's going to do.”

“A door jumps”

“Brimming. That's what it is, I want to get to a place where my sentences enact brimming.”

“I am that last, that”

“Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”

“Occasionally,”

“For of all sad words of tongue or pen,”

“But now, you are twain, you are cloven apart”

“Her skin smells of vintage books and pale moonlight, exotic things, forbidden loves and rainy nights.”

“She no longer had the desire to bend herself into the frame of photographs where she was unwelcome”