How to Be a Poet
By: Wendell Berry
HOW TO BE A POET
(to remind myself)
Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet.
You must depend upon
affection, reading, knowledge,
skill — more of each
than you have — inspiration,
work, growing older, patience,
for patience joins time
to eternity. Any readers
who like your poems,
doubt their judgment.
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Monday, September 23, 2019
Keeping Quiet
Keeping Quiet
By Pablo Neruda
Now we will count to twelve
and we will all keep still
for once on the face of the earth,
let’s not speak in any language;
let’s stop for a second,
and not move our arms so much.
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Listen to Sylvia Boorstein reads the poem in Brainpicking
By Pablo Neruda
Now we will count to twelve
and we will all keep still
for once on the face of the earth,
let’s not speak in any language;
let’s stop for a second,
and not move our arms so much.
Read more
Listen to Sylvia Boorstein reads the poem in Brainpicking
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