Paul

“That's what I want, that kind of recklessness where the poem is even ahead of you. It's like riding a horse that's a little too wild for you, so there's this tension between what you can do and what the horse decides it's going to do.”
― Li-Young Lee, Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young Lee

“While all bodies share the same fate, all voices do not.”
― Li-Young Lee

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

“I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing and what we ought to do. I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another. I want to believe there are geniuses scheming to astonish the rest of us, just for the pleasure of it.”
― Marilynne Robinson, The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought