3 Quotes by Jung-Myung Lee

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.

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.

Language is a person's signature, like his fingerprints. It contains his birth and growth, memories and past.