Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Poetry quote of the Day: Favorite Poem Project

Today's quote comes from a young reader of poetry, responding to the E.E. Cummings poem,"somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond."

"I have read this poem so many times that the spine of the book is broken and always turns to its page. Today I gave that book away to the first person that I have ever truly and sincerely loved. I gave her the book because there is no gift I could give her that would be more honest. This poem has shaped who I am. It has been a long journey, but Cummings's poem set my heart on a course to find love, and I have arrived, only to truly understand the poem for the first time."

---Scott Nesbit, 18  (as quoted in Poems to Read, an anthology for the Favorite Poem Project.)


This post is part of my Poetry Quote a Day series for National Poetry Month.
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5 comments:

  1. tanita✿davis4/28/09, 6:10 AM

    Aww. He's eighteen! And he reads poetry!!

    your slightest look easily will unclose me...

    *sigh*

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  2. jama4/28/09, 10:11 AM

    Sigh. This is so beautiful.

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  3. Anonymous4/28/09, 3:15 PM

    That's just the sort of thing to show people who get cranky about young people.

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  4. Jules at 7-Imp4/28/09, 4:51 PM

    I hope she knows how lucky she is.

    And word to what Adrienne said.

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  5. laurasalas4/29/09, 10:02 PM

    Oh, man. Gorgeous.

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