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.
A Day Comes by Jane Hirshfield
A day comes when the mouth grows tired of saying “I.” Yet it is occupied still by a self which must speak. Which still desires, is curious. Which believes it has also a right. What to do? The tongue consults with the teeth it knows will survive both mouth and self, which grin—it is their natural pose— and say nothing. ~ from After, Poems (HarperCollins, 2006)