Quotes by Li-Young Lee, The City in Which I Love You

Explore a curated collection of 7 quotes by Li-Young Lee, The City in Which I Love You. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

a bruise, bluein the muscle, youimpinge upon me.As bone hugs the ache home, soI'm vexed to love you, your bodythe shape — Li-Young Lee, The City in Which I Love You
A door jumpsout from shadows,then jumps away. Thisis what I've come to find:the back door, unlatched.Tooled by insular w — Li-Young Lee, The City in Which I Love You
My tongue remembers your wounded flavor.The vein in my neckadores you. A swordstands up between my hips,my hidden fleece — Li-Young Lee, The City in Which I Love You
Moonlight and high wind.Dark poplars toss, insinuate the sea. — Li-Young Lee, The City in Which I Love You
Memory revises me. — Li-Young Lee, The City in Which I Love You
but in the cityin which I love you,no one comes, no onemeets me in the brick clefts;in the wedged dark,no finger touches — Li-Young Lee, The City in Which I Love You
I buried my father in my heart.Now he grows in me, my strange son, my little root who won’t drink milk, little pale foot — Li-Young Lee, The City in Which I Love You