For Poets
Stay beautiful
but don't stay down underground too long
Don't turn into a mole
or a worm
or a root
or a stone
Come on out into the sunlight
Breathe in trees
Knock out mountains
Commune with snakes
& be the very hero of birds
Don't forget to poke your head up
& blink
think
Walk all around
Swim upstream
Don't forget to fly
by Al Young
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear ... I wanted to live deep and suck all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life...
Henry David Thoreau
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and to find more ways to
explore what we do in class.
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