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....

Have You Prayed” When the windturns and asks, in my father’s voice,Have you prayed?I know three things.....

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

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

I buried my father in my heart.Now he grows in me, my strange son, my little root who won’t drink milk,....

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,....