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“I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.”
― Let the Great World Spin
― Let the Great World Spin
“She revered solitude, but only because there was the possibility of breaking it. Of communing at last with another.”
― The Orchardist
― The Orchardist
“Just because a thing can't be done doesn't mean it can't be did. We all look into mirrors and see phantoms. Our error is our Eros. Why is there something instead of nothing? The answer is reckless and surreal.”
― The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction
― The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction
“I don't mind suffering as long as it's really about something. I don't mind great luck, if it's about something. If it's the hollow stuff, then there's no gift, one way or the other.”
― Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young Lee
― Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young Lee
“..in the last few years American poetry has come out of a poetry of complaint, not praising, and it was initially maybe rich. And it can continue to be rich if we remember that we shouldn't write out of complaint. We should write out of grief, but not grievance. Grief is rich, ecstatic. But grievance is not -- it's a complaint, it's whining.”
― Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young Lee
― Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young Lee
Lily’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Lily’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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175 friends
2,335 books
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1,046 books
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284 friends
887 books
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91 friends
1,478 books
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266 friends
199 books
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108 friends
1,655 books
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70 friends
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