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HOW TO BE A #POET
by #WendellBerry
(to remind myself)

Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be #quiet.
You must depend upon
#affection, reading, knowledge,
skill — more of each
than you have — #inspiration,
work, growing older, patience,
for #patience joins time
to eternity.

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Any #readers
who like your #poems,
doubt their judgment.

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#Breathe with unconditional breath
the unconditioned air.

Shun electric wire.

#Communicate slowly.

#Live a three-dimensioned life;

stay away from screens.

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Stay away from anything
that obscures the #place it is in.

There are no unsacred places;
there are only #sacred places
and desecrated places.

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#Accept what comes from #silence.

Make the best you can of it.

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Of the little #words that come
out of the #silence, like #prayers
#prayed back to the one who #prays,

make a #poem that does not disturb
the #silence from which it came.