a lovely blessing for a writer
…Let her
have a chair, her shadeless lamp,
the table. Let one or two she loves
be in the next room. Let the door
be closed, the sleeping ones healthy.
Let her have time, and silence,
enough paper to make mistakes and go on.
from Jane Hirshfield’s poem “The Poet"
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/563
have a chair, her shadeless lamp,
the table. Let one or two she loves
be in the next room. Let the door
be closed, the sleeping ones healthy.
Let her have time, and silence,
enough paper to make mistakes and go on.
from Jane Hirshfield’s poem “The Poet"
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/563
posted by wordperson at 2:05 PM
1 Comments:
Reminds me of "I can live," in a good way. Excellent!
-J. Randell
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