I believe that poetry soothes and heals us. So, in celebration of World Poetry Day, I am lending my breath to poems that are dear to me by :
Milosz,
Mary Oliver,
Auden,
Warsan Shire,
Emily Dickinson,
Rilke,
Kay Ryan,
Hafiz,
Rumi,
Transtromer,
Adrienne Rich,
Cavafy,
Leonard Cohen,
Fernando Pessoa,
Jack Gilbert,
Elizabeth Bishop,
Borges,
Kipling
and others...
"[Because] If society abolishes poetry it commits spiritual suicide.” —Octavio Paz
"Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular." —Aristotle
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Here, is an excerpt from a poem by Rilke:
I am too alone in the world, and not alone enough, to make every minute holy.........I want to be a mirror for your whole body............and in the silent, hardly moving times..............I want to be with those who know secret things, or else alone.................I want to unfold........because where I am folded, there I am a lie.............I want to describe myself, like a saying I finally understood.............like the face of my mother, like a ship that took me safely through the wildest storm of all
