The Fullness of Emptiness & the Voice of Silence
What is wisdom? If you are a mystic you become totally empty and you are given whatever you need. For example, there is a plane where all the knowledge is, and you can go there. You can get whatever you need.
—Sufi teacher, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Where the poet stops, the poem
begins. The poem asks only
that the poet gets out of the way.
The poem empties itself
in order to fill itself up.
...
When the poet disappears
the poem becomes visible.
—Donald Hall, American poet
(Excerpt, below, by poet Wendell Berry)
Photo by Kent Burgess
It is true that poetry that gives meaning to a good life will always live even though the poet has left forever. Indeed, the best person is a person who lives useful for others.
That is one meaning. Another is that the poet must vacate his ego, die to his ‘self’ & so that the poem can speak, purely, with the voice of inspiration 🙏🏼
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