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.”

“My tongue remembers your wounded flavor.”

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

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

“A door jumps”

“I am that last, that”

“There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.”

“Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye....”

“The poet, therefore, is truly the thief of fire.”

“Oh many a peer of England brews”

“I swear that girl was born with a pen in her hand, the moon in her hair and stars in her soul.”

“My Muse sits forlorn”