What did Li-Young Lee mean by: The knowledge that it takes to write a poem gets burnt up in the writing of the poem. - Li-Young Lee Poet · Indonesia Copy
+ We suffer each other to have each other a while. Feraz Zeid, July 18, 2023December 12, 2023, Li-Young Lee, Suffering, 0 - Li-Young Lee Poet · Indonesia
+ In writing poetry, all of one’s attention is focused on some inner voice. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Li-Young Lee, Attention, Voice, Writing, 0 - Li-Young Lee Poet · Indonesia
+ And I never believed that the multitude / of dreams and many words were vain. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Li-Young Lee, Dream, Multitudes, Vain, 0 - Li-Young Lee Poet · Indonesia
+ Memory is sweet. Even when it’s painful, memory is sweet. Feraz Zeid, September 14, 2023December 26, 2023, Li-Young Lee, Memories, Painful, Sweet, 0 - Li-Young Lee Poet · Indonesia
+ Brimming. That’s what it is, I want to get to a place where my sentences enact brimming. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Li-Young Lee, Sentences, 0 - Li-Young Lee Poet · Indonesia
+ The lyric self is the self; the narrative self is not. Feraz Zeid, June 30, 2023December 12, 2023, Li-Young Lee, Narrative, Self, 0 - Li-Young Lee Poet · Indonesia
+ A poem is like a score for the human voice. Feraz Zeid, June 29, 2023December 12, 2023, Li-Young Lee, Human, Score, Voice, 0 - Li-Young Lee Poet · Indonesia
+ Every time you write a poem it’s apocalyptic. You’re revealing who you really are to yourself. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Li-Young Lee, Revealing, Writing, 0 - Li-Young Lee Poet · Indonesia
Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. - William Ralph Inge Theologian and Anglican priest · England
To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified. - Maxwell Perkins Editor · USA
