Lifshin
"I have written so many poems…
sometimes I think I am just
collecting the air between moments."
Over 130 books · Thousands of poems · One life — unstoppable.
"They called me the Queen of the Small Presses.
I wrote fast, I wrote short,
I wrote what I felt.
About being a woman — pain, joy,
everything too quiet to say out loud."
"My poems are not big speeches.
They are whispers — gasps —
exactly what you feel but cannot say."
"They say I wrote too much.
But how can there be too much truth?
How can there be too much feeling?
As long as one person reads and thinks —
'Yes. That's me.'
— then I am still here."