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

“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.”

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

“A door jumps”

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

“My tongue remembers your wounded flavor.”

“Moonlight and high wind.”

“Between two worlds life hovers like a star,”

“and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim us”

“A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.”

“The bridge will only take you halfway there, to those mysterious lands you long to see. Through gypsy camps and swirling Arab fair, and moonlit woods where unicorns run free. So come and walk awhile with me and share the twisting trails and wondrous worlds I've known. But this bridge will only take you halfway there. The last few steps you have to take alone.”

“Go then, O my inseperable, this once more,”

“Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets.”