"How To Be A Poet" by Wendell Berry by On Being Studios published on 2014-08-01T21:19:42Z Wendell Berry reads a collection of his poems, included in the show "The Poetry of Creatures." How we see the world is how we value it, says Ellen Davis. And poetry is a way to rediscover the lost art of being creatures. An hour of learning and slowing down, with the "Mad Farmer" poems of Wendell Berry and a new way to take in the "poetry" of Genesis. See more at www.onbeing.org/program/ellen-davis-and-wendell-berry-the-poetry-of-creatures/117 Genre Public Radio Comment by meligrosa So beautiful. LOVE it. 2015-05-30T17:05:11Z Comment by Peiman HOW TO BE A POET (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. Any readers who like your poems, doubt their judgment. Breathe with unconditional breath the unconditioned air. Shun electric wire. Communicate slowly. Live a three-dimensioned life; stay away from screens. Stay away from anything that obscures the place it is in. There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places. Accept what comes from silence. Make the best you can of it. 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. 2015-05-16T17:05:55Z
