HOW TO BE A POET – CÓMO SER UN POETA

por Wendell Berry

En inglés y español

Wendell Berry (Henry, Kentucky, 5 de agosto de 1934) es un escritor y granjero estadounidense. Es autor de novelas, cuentos, poemas y ensayos y un defensor de la agricultura ecológica. (Wikipedia)

HOW TO BE A POET

(to remind myself)

Make a place to sit down.

Sit down. Be quiet.

You must depend upon

affection, reading, knowledge,

skill — more of each

than you have — inspiration,

work, growing older, patience,

for patience joins time

to eternity. Any readers

who like your poems,

doubt their judgment.