'Swan,' by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page.
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I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Poems, for me, begin as a social engagement. I want to establish a kind of sociability or even hospitality at the beginning of a poem. The title and the first few lines are a kind of welcome mat where I am inviting the reader inside.
'Lonesome Dove' by Larry McMurtry and 'The Poisonwood Bible' by Barbara Kingsolver have stuck with me throughout my life, and I think that says a lot about an author's writing.
I find a lot of poetry very disappointing, but I do have poets that I go back to. One book of poetry that I'd like to mention is 'The Exchange' by Sophie Cabot Black. Her poems are difficult without being too difficult.
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Books teach children to see the world through the eyes of others and empathise with others. It's about the story.
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
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