Quotes by : Li-Young Lee

O, to take what we love inside,to carry within us an orchard, to eatnot only the skin, but the shade,not....

but in the cityin which I love you,no one comes, no onemeets me in the brick clefts;in the wedged dark,no....

Moonlight and high wind.Dark poplars toss, insinuate the sea.

That's what I want, that kind of recklessness where the poem is even ahead of you. It's like riding a....

Memory is sweet.Even when it's painful, memory is sweet.

We suffer each other to have each other a while.

A door jumpsout from shadows,then jumps away. Thisis what I've come to find:the back door, unlatched.Tooled....

And of all the rooms in my childhood,God was the largestand most empty.

My tongue remembers your wounded flavor.The vein in my neckadores you. A swordstands up between my hips,my....

a bruise, bluein the muscle, youimpinge upon me.As bone hugs the ache home, soI'm vexed to love you,....