Tuesday, October 25, 2005

My Favorite Poem of All Time

THE SECOND POEM THE NIGHT-WALKER WROTE

Over all the hilltops
Silence,
Among all the treetops
You feel hardly
A breath moving.
The birds fall silent in the woods.
Simply wait! Soon
You too will be silent.



GOETHE/1780
trans. Robert Bly

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