A lyrical reminder to break the momentum of busyness that fuels “the sadness of never understanding ourselves.”
“Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet…”So begins Wendell Berry’s “How to Be a Poet,” tucked into which is tremendous sagacity on how to be a good human being.“The impulse to create begins… in a tunnel of silence,” wrote Adrienne Rich in her tremendous lecture on art and freedom.“Every real poem is the breaking of an existing silence.”
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