Quotes by Li-Young Lee, Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young Lee

“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 wha...”

“Brimming. That's what it is, I want to get to a place where my sentences enact brimming.”