Li-Young Lee Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. a bruise, bluein the muscle, youimpinge upon me.As bone hugs the ache home, soI'm vexed to love you, your bodythe shape of returns, your hair a torsoof light, your heatI must have, your openingI'd eat, each momentof that soft-finned fruit,inverted fountain in which I don't see me. The City in Which I Love You

2. A door jumpsout from shadows,then jumps away. Thisis what I've come to find:the back door, unlatched.Tooled by insular wind, itslams and slamswithout meaningto and without meaning. The City in Which I Love You

3. Brimming. That's what it is, I want to get to a place where my sentences enact brimming. Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young Lee

4. I am that last, thatfinal thing, the bodyin a white sheet listening,

5. Moonlight and high wind.Dark poplars toss, insinuate the sea. The City in Which I Love You

6. My tongue remembers your wounded flavor.The vein in my neckadores you. A swordstands up between my hips,my hidden fleece sends forth its scent of human oil. The City in Which I Love You

7. 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. Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young Lee

8. We suffer each other to have each other a while.