Entry 96

Being a poet is not a career, it's a life. Writing poems is not a career

but a lifetime of looking into, and listening to, how words see.

Philip Booth

You must let the poem speak to you; you must let the poem tell you

how it wants to be. Your being is already part of what the poem is coming

to be; its being is continually part of who you are as you open yourself

to write.

Philip Booth