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Li-Young Lee

"I've been thinking about something for a long time, and I keep noticing that most human speech-if not all human speech-is made with the outgoing breath. This is the strange thing about presence and absence. When we breath in, our bodies are filled with nutrients and nourishment. Our blood is filled with oxygen, our skin gets flush; our bones get harder-they get compacted. Our muscles get toned and we feel very present when we're breathing in. The problem is, that when we're breathing in, we can't speak. So presence and silence have something to do with each other."

Source : "The Totality of Causes". Interview with Tina Chang, www.poets.org. February 21, 2014.

Li-Young Lee

#Thinking Quotes #Oxygen Quotes #Blood Quotes

“What I'm trying to do is bring certain of those engineering values into the design process, such that when you think about form you're already incorporating those performance criteria in the process of the generation of forms.”
“We consider the beauty of nature and art with pleasure and satisfaction, without the slightest movement of desire. Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction; that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it”
“Now that the 2014 elections are over and national politics is all about 2016, Democrats have good reason to worry that, for all his success at the polls, President Obama will leave his party with a toxic legacy.”

Source : "Obama's dangerous legacy for Democrats" by Byron York, www.washingtonexaminer.com. December 2, 2014.
“New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.”
“We may disagree on some things, but we can do so without being disagreeable.”
“They're getting me involved in intrigue again, and I think it follows a classic formula in a soap opera.”
“I think God is perfect, all-powerful and has an unstoppable plan for everyone, including those who love him and those who don't.”
“Success is doing what you said you would do, consistantly, with clarity, focus, ease and grace.”

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