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

“We suffer each other to have each other a while.”

“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.”

“I am that last, that”

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

“A door jumps”

“Moonlight and high wind.”

“I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; Garlands from window to window; Golden chains from star to star ... And I dance.”

“I kept loving and loving and loving. Every waking hour, I marveled on how these moments would make made me feel. I wanted to love the world and be the change it so deliciously craved.”

“I sometimes think you despise poetry,' said Phineas.”

“All war is based in deception (cfr. Sun Tzu, “The Art of War”).”

“Hinged to forgetfulness like a door,”

“She lives the poetry she cannot write.”