There is a hole in the palace wall.
A good poem is like that!
You never know what you might see.
—Tukaram (11th C., India)
Quoted in Robert McDowell’s Poetry As Spiritual Practice
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
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2 comments:
What I love about this is that Tukaram doesn't say if the poem lets us look into or out from the palace. It must be both!
like one of those big fat dreams...
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