Shirley Geok-lin Lim Quotes

Professor
Malaysia
1954

19 Inspiring Shirley Geok-lin Lim Quotes

Writing a poem is unwriting a knot, like untying a shoelace that is clubbing your foot. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Feet, Writing, 0

- Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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· Malaysia

Feet
Writing

Poetry has roots, but they are sometimes cut off and still poetry is written. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Roots, 0

- Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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· Malaysia

Roots

The foot can march or it can dance, but it cannot stand still until end-stopped. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, End, Feet, March, 0

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· Malaysia

Heterosexuality – whichever gender you are – says that the other gender is very important to you. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Gender, Important, 0

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The things that I dislike passionately, I have come to realize, are also part of me. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Dislike, Realizing, 0

- Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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· Malaysia

I’m in my 60s, and a cancer scare just makes you more aware of mortality. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Cancer, Mortality, Scare, 0

- Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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· Malaysia

In the same way, the people whom I most abhor, I abhor them for elements that I abhor in myself. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Elements, 0

- Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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· Malaysia

Elements

When someone asks me now, “What do you do?” I will be able to say, “I am a writer.” Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Ask Me, 0

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Ask Me

One should be able to teach adequately and feel good about it. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Feel Good, 0

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Feel Good

My brothers were my peers, but they were not the preeminent male figures in my emotional life. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Brother, Emotional, Males, 0

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I was nine when I first knew I wanted to be a writer, in particular, a poet. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Poet, 0

- Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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Poet

Free verse is chained in sentence-to-sentence links and breaks free in line breaks. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Break, Links, 0

- Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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Break
Links

Poetry has roots, and sometimes they are aerial. Sometimes they are buried. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Buried, Roots, 0

- Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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· Malaysia

Buried
Roots

Sometimes the taproot and the vines are far apart. Like English and the Asian poem. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Asian, Vines, 0

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Asian
Vines

Singing has nothing to do with poetry, except as twins separated at birth. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Birth, Singing, Twins, 0

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· Malaysia

Breath and brevity are sisters; the long-winded is an enemy who muffles your heartbeat. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Enemy, Heartbeat, 0

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· Malaysia

When people say “the body,” frequently they mean the literal body, the physical body. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Body, 0

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Body

The crows live in the world like you do. They are part of nature. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Crow, Like You, 0

- Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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· Malaysia

One arrives at a recognition that one needs to be distracted. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Distracted, Recognition, 0

- Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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· Malaysia

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Shirley Geok-lin Lim Quotes

19 Inspiring Shirley Geok-lin Lim Quotes

After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete.

With age, I have become both more pious and more shameless.

Failures are easier to repeat than successes.

The facts, even the real ones, must be imagined before they can be stated.

Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.

Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.

Joy goes as deep as sorrow, but leaves less of itself behind.

Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.

The wisdom of age: don’t stop walking.

A river, though, has so many things to say that it is hard to know what it says to each of us.

Shirley Geok-lin Lim Quotes

19 Inspiring Shirley Geok-lin Lim Quotes

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