Sunday, April 14, 2013

Thought for the Day

. . . the way to live is to know
what you will forget. . . .
~ Richard Jackson, Poet
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Quoted from Richard Jackson's poem "Living On"

Richard Jackson Pages at UTC and Vermont College of Fine Arts


Richard Jackson, "Translation, Adaptation and Transformation: The Poet as Translator", Numero Cinq Magazine, March 2011

3 comments:

Lorna Cahall said...

Oh Maureen,
This is quite a poem. Thanks for introducing me to Richard Jackson. I might forget his name, but not the message.

Anonymous said...

There are many ways
for death to suck the life
out of breath

S. Etole said...

So needful at times.