Poet Jane Hirshfield said "... the feeling I have about poem-writing (is) that it is always an exploration, of discovering something I didn't already know. Who I am shifts from moment to moment, year to year. What I can perceive does as well. A new poem peers into mystery, into whatever lies just beyond the edge of knowable ground."
I bring a different poem to the writing classes each week, not only to inspire but to introduce new poets to the group members.
I find you in all these things of the world by Rainer Maria Rilke
I find you in all these things of the world that I love calmly, like a brother; in things no one care for, you brood like a seed; and to powerful things you give an immense power. Strength plays such a marvelous game— it moves through the things of the world like a servant, groping out in roots, tapering in trunks and in the treetops like a rising from the dead. ~ Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Robert Bly (HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. 1981)