Philosophy is a bad master for poetry; religion worse; and politics self-serving will never serve the Muse.
Shirley Geok-lin LimI came to realize this weird projection: you are much more passionate about hating something outside of you when you know that something is also in you.
Shirley Geok-lin LimWhen I write, I put aside the heterosexual world to admit a muse that is a woman-loving-woman female.
Shirley Geok-lin Lim