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Top 20 Li-Young Lee Quotes (2025 Update)

Li-Young Lee Quote: “Memory is sweet. Even when it’s painful, memory is sweet.”

1. “Memory is sweet. Even when it’s painful, memory is sweet.”

— Li-Young Lee

Li-Young Lee Quote: “Could it be in longing we are most ourselves?”

2. “Could it be in longing we are most ourselves?”

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Li-Young Lee Quote: “Every time you write a poem it’s apocalyptic. You’re revealing who you really are to yourself.”

3. “Every time you write a poem it’s apocalyptic. You’re revealing who you really are to yourself.”

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Li-Young Lee Quote: “The problem with memory is that is changes whatever it touches. It is never that accurate. As a result, I end up modifying and revising my own experiences. It’s myth making.”

4. “The problem with memory is that is changes whatever it touches. It is never that accurate. As a result, I end up modifying and revising my own experiences. It’s myth making.”

— Li-Young Lee

Li-Young Lee Quote: “People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning bush.”

5. “People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning bush.”

— Li-Young Lee

Li-Young Lee Quote: “We suffer each other to have each other a while.”

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

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Li-Young Lee Quote: “While all bodies share the same fate, all voices do not.”

7. “While all bodies share the same fate, all voices do not.”

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Li-Young Lee Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

— Li-Young Lee

Li-Young Lee Quote: “Then you’ll remember your life as a book of candles, each page read by the light of its own burning.”

9. “Then you’ll remember your life as a book of candles, each page read by the light of its own burning.”

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Li-Young Lee Quote: “A bruise, blue in the muscle, you impinge upon me. As bone hugs the ache home, so I’m vexed to love you, your body the shape of returns, your hair a torso of light, your heat I must have, your opening I’d eat, each moment of that soft-finned fruit, inverted fountain in which I don’t see me.”

10. “A bruise, blue in the muscle, you impinge upon me. As bone hugs the ache home, so I’m vexed to love you, your body the shape of returns, your hair a torso of light, your heat I must have, your opening I’d eat, each moment of that soft-finned fruit, inverted fountain in which I don’t see me.”

— Li-Young Lee

Li-Young Lee Quote: “MY INDIGO It’s late. I’ve come to find the flower which blossoms like a saint dying upside down. The rose won’t do, nor the iris. I’ve come to find the moody one, the shy one, downcast, grave, and isolated. Now, blackness gathers in the grass, and I am on my hands and knees. What is its name? Little sister, my indigo, my secret, vaginal and sweet, you unfurl yourself shamelessly toward the ground. You burn. You live a while in two worlds at once.”

11. “MY INDIGO It’s late. I’ve come to find the flower which blossoms like a saint dying upside down. The rose won’t do, nor the iris. I’ve come to find the moody one, the shy one, downcast, grave, and isolated. Now, blackness gathers in the grass, and I am on my hands and knees. What is its name? Little sister, my indigo, my secret, vaginal and sweet, you unfurl yourself shamelessly toward the ground. You burn. You live a while in two worlds at once.”

— Li-Young Lee

Li-Young Lee Quote: “Maybe being winged means being wounded by infinity.”

12. “Maybe being winged means being wounded by infinity.”

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Li-Young Lee Quote: “Poetry is the language of extremity. Poetry is a transfer of potency. You feel something potent and then you transfer it onto the page.”

13. “Poetry is the language of extremity. Poetry is a transfer of potency. You feel something potent and then you transfer it onto the page.”

— Li-Young Lee

Li-Young Lee Quote: “A poem is like a score for the human voice.”

14. “A poem is like a score for the human voice.”

— Li-Young Lee

Li-Young Lee Quote: “I don’t mind suffering as long as it’s really about something. I don’t mind great luck, if it’s about something. If it’s the hollow stuff, then there’s no gift, one way or the other.”

15. “I don’t mind suffering as long as it’s really about something. I don’t mind great luck, if it’s about something. If it’s the hollow stuff, then there’s no gift, one way or the other.”

— Li-Young Lee

Li-Young Lee Quote: “Brimming. That’s what it is, I want to get to a place where my sentences enact brimming.”

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

— Li-Young Lee

Li-Young Lee Quote: “The lyric self is the self; the narrative self is not.”

17. “The lyric self is the self; the narrative self is not.”

— Li-Young Lee

Li-Young Lee Quote: “The knowledge that it takes to write a poem gets burnt up in the writing of the poem.”

18. “The knowledge that it takes to write a poem gets burnt up in the writing of the poem.”

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Li-Young Lee Quote: “Nothing saves him who’s never loved. No world is safe in that one’s keeping.”

19. “Nothing saves him who’s never loved. No world is safe in that one’s keeping.”

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Li-Young Lee Quote: “Our bodies look solid, but they arent. Were like a fountain. A fountain of water looks solid, but you can put your fingers right through it. Our bodies look like things, but theres no thingness to them.”

20. “Our bodies look solid, but they arent. Were like a fountain. A fountain of water looks solid, but you can put your fingers right through it. Our bodies look like things, but theres no thingness to them.”

— Li-Young Lee

Li-Young Lee Quote: “A door jumps out from shadows, then jumps away. This is what I’ve come to find: the back door, unlatched. Tooled by insular wind, it slams and slams without meaning to and without meaning.”

21. “A door jumps out from shadows, then jumps away. This is what I’ve come to find: the back door, unlatched. Tooled by insular wind, it slams and slams without meaning to and without meaning.”

— Li-Young Lee

Li-Young Lee Quote: “In writing poetry, all of one’s attention is focused on some inner voice.”

22. “In writing poetry, all of one’s attention is focused on some inner voice.”

— Li-Young Lee

Li-Young Lee Quote: “There are words we say in the dark. There are words we speak in the light. And sometimes they’re the same words.”

23. “There are words we say in the dark. There are words we speak in the light. And sometimes they’re the same words.”

— Li-Young Lee

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