"Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? -- every, every minute?"
Question asked by Emily, in OUR TOWN, by Thornton Wilder
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
What Do Writers Want?
FROM "COVER NOTE"
by W.S. Merwin
. . . reader I do
not know that anyone
else is waiting for these
words that I hoped might seem
as though they had occurred
to you and you would take
them with you as your own
FROM "FINDING A NEW POET"
by Linda Pastan
Finding a new poet
is like finding a new wildflower
out in the woods . . .
And the words are so familiar,
so strangely new, words
you almost wrote yourself, if only
in your dreams there had been a pencil
or a pen or even a paintbrush,
if only there had been a flower.
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