I May,I Might,I Must
If you tell me why the fen
appears impassable,I then
will tell you why I think that I
can get across it if I try.
Marianne Moore
(1887-1972)
Heard in a Violent Ward
In heaven too,
You'd be institutionalized.
But that's all right---
If they let you eat and swear
With the likes of Blake
And Christopher Smart,
And that sweet man John Clare.
Theodore Roethke
(1908-1963)
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I am the dust that dances in the light. - Rumi