"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
"The primary needs can be filled without language. We can eat, sleep, make love, bear children, without language. But we cannot ask questions. We cannot ask, "Who am I? Who are you? Why?" — Madeleine L'Engle, American poet, born 1918