What did Shirley Geok-lin Lim mean by: I was nine when I first knew I wanted to be a writer, in particular, a poet. - Shirley Geok-lin Lim Professor · Malaysia Copy
+ When someone asks me now, “What do you do?” I will be able to say, “I am a writer.” Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Ask Me, 0 - Shirley Geok-lin Lim Professor · Malaysia
+ Sometimes the taproot and the vines are far apart. Like English and the Asian poem. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Asian, Vines, 0 - Shirley Geok-lin Lim Professor · Malaysia
+ One arrives at a recognition that one needs to be distracted. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Distracted, Recognition, 0 - Shirley Geok-lin Lim Professor · Malaysia
+ The things that I dislike passionately, I have come to realize, are also part of me. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Dislike, Realizing, 0 - Shirley Geok-lin Lim Professor · Malaysia
+ Singing has nothing to do with poetry, except as twins separated at birth. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Birth, Singing, Twins, 0 - Shirley Geok-lin Lim Professor · 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, 2024January 10, 2024, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Elements, 0 - Shirley Geok-lin Lim Professor · Malaysia
+ My brothers were my peers, but they were not the preeminent male figures in my emotional life. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Brother, Emotional, Males, 0 - Shirley Geok-lin Lim Professor · Malaysia
+ Breath and brevity are sisters; the long-winded is an enemy who muffles your heartbeat. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Enemy, Heartbeat, 0 - Shirley Geok-lin Lim Professor · Malaysia
O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile: So have all sages said, all poets sung. - Jean Ingelow Poet · England
I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become. - Jean Toomer Writer
The poet will not be satisfied with recording, the poet will have to transform. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic. - Franz Grillparzer Writer · Austria
We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets. Explain - Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher · Germany
