I savored this lovely post and poem for a bit and the next site I opened had a wonderful Mark Strand (poet, Aries) quote...”We live with mystery, but we don’t like the feeling. I think we should get used to it. We feel we have to know what things mean, to be on top of this and that. I don’t think it’s human you know, to be that competent at life.”
The last lines of Wordsworth’s poem and the last line of Strand’s quote, have struck a chord. x
I savored this lovely post and poem for a bit and the next site I opened had a wonderful Mark Strand (poet, Aries) quote...”We live with mystery, but we don’t like the feeling. I think we should get used to it. We feel we have to know what things mean, to be on top of this and that. I don’t think it’s human you know, to be that competent at life.”
The last lines of Wordsworth’s poem and the last line of Strand’s quote, have struck a chord. x
Love that!
What poem is this called by strand?
Not a poem, but a quote from an interview he gave to The Paris Review in 1998 (per Instagram).
"In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts
Bring sad thoughts to the mind." damn William
damn bro