What I did not know (Berger)
What I did not know when I was very young was that nothing can take the past away: the past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
John Berger, And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos
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I would say that all religion is fossilized poetry. Poets are the real practitioners of the sacred. The priests, churches, they come after us. Let them build. They are already the fossilized versions of what poets come up with.
—Li-Young Lee
—Li-Young Lee
Friday, May 12, 2023
