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Ocean Vuong Quotes

Total quotes: 6
“Maybe a survivor is nothing but the last one to come home, the final monarch that lands on a branch already weighted with ghosts.”
— Ocean Vuong, A Letter to My Mother That She Will Never Read
Tagged: Prose, Survivor, War, Culture, Personal History, Childhood, Immigrants, mothers, Poetry, Vietnam War
“It only takes a single night of frost to kill off an entire generation. To live, then, is a matter of time, of timing.”
— Ocean Vuong, A Letter to My Mother That She Will Never Read
Tagged: Hope, Prose, Life, War, Culture, Personal History, Childhood, Immigrants, mothers, Poetry, Vietnam War
“When does a war end? When can I say your name and have it mean only your name and not what you left behind?”
— Ocean Vuong, A Letter to My Mother That She Will Never Read
Tagged: War, Break Up, Emotional Abuse, Prose, Culture, Personal History, Childhood, Immigrants, mothers, Poetry, Vietnam War
“Show me how ruin makes a home
out of  hip bones. O mother,

O minutehand, teach me
how to hold a man the way thirst

holds water. Let every river envy
our mouths. Let every kiss hit the body

like a season.”
— Ocean Vuong, A Little Closer To The Edge
Tagged: Love Poem
“Language, like people, can be perpetually in flux. That words are, in a sense, bodies moving from one space to another. Our very cells, too, are always moving. They are just overflowing, and dying, and being reborn. What is seemingly so static is actually constantly in motion.”
— Ocean Vuong, Divedapper, 2016
Tagged: Language, Science Poems
“Silly me. I thought love was real & the body imaginary.”
— Ocean Vuong, Eurydice
Tagged: Poetry, Heartbreak, Love, Fool, Dating
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