"There are days we live as if death were nowhere in the background; from joy to joy to joy, from wing to wing, from blossom to blossom to impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom." — Li-Young Lee, Indonesian-American poet, born 1957
"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 what the horse decides it's going to do." — Li-Young Lee, Indonesian-American poet, born 1957
"Man needs color to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water." — Fernand Leger, French painter, born 1881
"Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power." — Fernand Leger, French painter, born 1881
"Latins for Republicans. It's like roaches for Raid." — John Leguizamo, Colombian-American actor, born 1964
"You don't have to enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth." — Annie Leibovitz, American photographer, born 1949
"Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure." — Jack Lemmon, American actor, born 1925
"It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is." — Jack Lemmon, American actor, born 1925
"Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling." — Madeleine L'Engle, American poet, born 1918
"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children." — Madeleine L'Engle, American poet, born 1918
"Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it." — Madeleine L'Engle, American poet, born 1918