A Pause For Beauty
One ought every day at least to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture,
and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
- Goethe
. . .
A poet must eat stars only for supper.
A poet may eat bread for his breakfast, and bread and flesh for his dinner, but for
his supper he must eat stars only.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The quest to know yourself, to be yourself
To find the beauty inside yourself
And create out of it, to create there
Is a sacred journey, prone to setback.
Always just beyond the next horizon,
Just beyond the next life lesson
An elusive destination exists there.
A poet needs sustenance, food
A poet needs friendship
Just like we all do
But a poet also must carve out time
To contemplate the beauty that cannot be understood
To reflect on the silence of the stars
In case it has secrets it is willing to share.
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