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From: Ruth I Gordon <druthgo>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 10:15:57 -0700
I also always carry a poem with me when I have my backpack. It's laminated and by e.e. cummings "somewhere I have never traveled..."
But more important when I'm without the backpack, there are lines and lines in my mind, poems I learned "by heart" as a youngster from a generation expeceted to memorize a great deal. My mother knew gobs more. Isn't it interesting that we "learn by heart", not by "mind." In the introduction to my first anthology I wrote about the importance of the words of other people when we had none of our own.
Big Grandma
(gatherer of flowers)
"You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty." Jessica Mitford (191796)
Received on Thu 24 Apr 2003 12:15:57 PM CDT
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 10:15:57 -0700
I also always carry a poem with me when I have my backpack. It's laminated and by e.e. cummings "somewhere I have never traveled..."
But more important when I'm without the backpack, there are lines and lines in my mind, poems I learned "by heart" as a youngster from a generation expeceted to memorize a great deal. My mother knew gobs more. Isn't it interesting that we "learn by heart", not by "mind." In the introduction to my first anthology I wrote about the importance of the words of other people when we had none of our own.
Big Grandma
(gatherer of flowers)
"You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty." Jessica Mitford (191796)
Received on Thu 24 Apr 2003 12:15:57 PM CDT
