Anthology: Poems on How to Live
An episode from 1/26/23: Tonight I read a handful of poems on the theme of How to live, what to do? How to get by in the world as a devotee of culture, solitude, ritual, beauty, tradition and individuality?
\nThere is of course no one answer, and anyway, poetry should stay as far away from direct \u201cadvice,\u201d or proscription of any kind. Still, when I sit back and think about the kind of poems that help me through the day \u2013 and the months, and the years \u2013 these are some of them:
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- Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), How to Live What to Do \n
- Galway Kinnell (1927-2014), Tillamook Journal \n
- Edith Nesbit (1858-1924), Things That Matter \n
- Seamus Heaney (1939-2013), #2 from Lightenings \n
- Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962), Joy \n
- Louise Gl\xfcck (1943-), Summer Night \n
- W. B. Yeats (1865-1939), A Prayer on Going into My House \n
- Emily Bront\xeb (1818-1848), \u201cOften rebuked, yet always back returning\u201d \n
- Henry Vaughan (1621-1695), Man \n
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