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“Note, the reply will not be "I write," an act that I have, after all, been performing since I was nine.”

Quote by Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Shirley Geok-lin Lim is a Singaporean-born writer known for her profound insights into multiculturalism and her rich literary works. Her writings often focus on themes of race, gender, and identity, which have resonated with readers worldwide. more

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“Rather, the collapsing between act and condition, "I am" with "I do," feels like authenticity, an authenticity of being. The muse rewarded me for a few months, after April of 2012, by giving me poems, almost a poem each day, that I can claim as coming from my writer's status.”

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“In recent poems, I have abandoned the theme of not being able to write for an even more obsessive subject, the nature of language, particularly English, in the formation of my imagination and being.”

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“Emerging into writership, I have plans to discover my other themes, of nation and country, love and conflict, the body and transcendence, mutilation and wholeness, starvation and wicked plenty, and more. That is, I am already thinking ahead to more writing.”

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“Poetry must speak of others, in order to speak for the poet's imagination, in order to speak of itself; it is slowed down by poetics after its flight is over.”

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“Poetics is a science for stammering poets.”

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“Signs of a maddening system of writing and counting that calibrates the values of something the poet does not yet know. Praxis is therefore poetics.”

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“New formalism is writing with language as flow, like the flow from a dam, running through a desert that has had no rain for decades.”

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“Free verse is chained in sentence-to-sentence links and breaks free in line breaks.”

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“The city and nature, the built stone and the found stone, concrete and slate, poetry addresses them all democratically.”

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“Poetry has roots, but they are sometimes cut off and still poetry is written.”

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