Wendell Berry on How to Be a Poet
"Although poetry itself exerts a singular power over the human spirit... it is hardly a power that comes easily to the poet." In his poem, titled "How to Be a Poet (to remind myself)," the wise and wonderful poet Wendell Berry reminds us of the "vitalizing power of silence and stillness and self-refinement" which are so essential to being a poet, an artist of any kind, and really, a complete human being.
http://www.dailygood.org/story/1148/wendell-berry-on-how-to-be-a-poet-and-a-complete-human-being-maria-popova/
http://www.dailygood.org/story/1148/wendell-berry-on-how-to-be-a-poet-and-a-complete-human-being-maria-popova/