Poeta, strażnik i więzień Quotes

“Books were cities I'd never visited, filled with pillars of great thoughts and streets of phrases, mazes of abstruse sentence structures and alleys of complicated syllables. They were stores that displayed a wide range of things, punctuation twinkling like the crest of a venerable family, sentences breathing peacefully, words whispering.”
― Jung-Myung Lee, The Investigation

“one sentence seemed to change a man, and the world seemed to change, one man at a time.”
― Jung-Myung Lee, The Investigation

“Universes were organized on the shelves according to my will. I exerted absolute control according to my own order and rules, putting Tolstoy's essays on the same shelf as Dostoyevsky's Crime And Punishment and a yellowed copy of Othello next to King Lear.

Soon I could guess the age of a book just by its scent and understand a book's core from a quick glance at the table of contents, like a farmer who could tell the maturity and sweetness of a fruit from just its colour and the texture of its skin.”
― Jung-Myung Lee, The Investigation

“Nazwana inaczej róża wciąż pachniała, ale jeśli nie nazywano jej różą, przestawała nią być. Nawet ta najwonniejsza straci z czasem zapach i zwiędnie, jednak jej imię będzie żyło i wypowiedziane przywoła dawne piękno i zapach. Róża zniknie, lecz jej nazwa przetrwa.”
― Jung-Myung Lee, Poeta, strażnik i więzień

“Poetry is reflective of your soul,” Hiranuma went on quietly. “It is casting a bucket into a dark well and drawing up the truth. We’re reassured by poetry. We learn from it and ultimately it saves us.”
― Jung-Myung Lee, The Investigation

“Language is a person's signature, like his fingerprints. It contains his birth and growth, memories and past.”
― Jung-Myung Lee, The Investigation

“To him, writing was merely a tool with which to corrupt the world, applying various -isms to set fire to the hearts of the weak and prey upon them. But”
― Jung-Myung Lee, The Investigation