"Memory revises me. Even now a letter comes from a place I donâ€™t know, from someone with my name and postmarked years ago, while I await injunctions from the light or the dark; I wait for shapeliness limned, or dissolution. Is paradise due or narrowly missed until another thousand years? I wait in a blue hour and faraway noise of hammering, and on a page a poem begun, something about to be dispersed, something about to come into being."

Source : Li-Young Lee (1990). “The City in which I Love You: Poems”, p.14, BOA Editions, Ltd.

Li-Young Lee

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“You can call me whatever you like. Last chance for cake!”
“There is only one thing in your life YOU can be sure of. That one thing is this moment, now. The last moment has gone forever. The next moment has not come. YOU can become fully conscious only when you are living in the moment. To begin to live in the moment you have to know it exists and understand it. To understand it you have to observe it in relation to yourself and in relation to life. When you understand it, when you become conscious, you will see it is all that exists. To see this is to glimpse reality.”

Source : "Knowing Yourself: The True in the False". Book by Barry Long, 1996.
“I do feel my fan base, my community understands me and appreciates me very deeply, and that is the wind in my sails to keep doing what I am doing. I know that my work really inspires people and they tell me that all the time, and so that's wonderful.”
“Glory to Women! They weave and entwine heavenly roses into an earthly life.”
“I've started looking at my own father a bit funny. He assures me, though, that I really am the son of a Scottish postman.”
“You can experience consciousness now by experiencing the fact that you exist.”

Source : "Knowing Yourself: The True in the False". Book by Barry Long, 1996.
“Don't make excuses, just get it done!”
“And now, my poor old woman, why are you crying so bitterly? It is autumn. The leaves are falling from the trees like burning tears- the wind howls. Why must you mimic them?”

Source : Mervyn Peake (1995). “The Gormenghast Novels”, Overlook Books

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