A poet is somebody who feels, and who expresses his feelings through words.
E. E. Cummings
This may sound easy. It isn’t.
A lot of people think or believe or know they feel — but that’s thinking or believing or knowing; not feeling. And poetry is feeling — not knowing or believing or thinking.
Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel. Why? Because whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you’re nobody-but-yourself.
To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
5 Comments
Earl
That’s a great photo, Monte. Very nice work!
Monte Stevens
Thank you, my friend! Hope you are having a good Monday!!!
Earl
Yes, this photo is definitely print and family gift-worthy.
geri oster
I agree with Earl, this is a wonderful photograph, Monte. So much “feeling”. Truly, I get the feeling of the Spirit in this moment. Many of your recent photographs are stirring that place deep within, my Essence, that is callings out more and more for the solitude, the silence, the being, and for me oftentimes, the feeling of this human experience with the divine all around me. These words and pictures are drawing me again and again to that sanctuary of the soul experienced by me since I was a child in the arms and breath of Creation. Thank You, Monte for helping me, through the gift your work and thoughts of others which you share here, to return to myself and Creator. Only then can I be a servant of peace and goodwill to others and the universe.
Monte Stevens
Thank you for sharing such beautiful words with us, Geri! I am glad that these photographs, these words, and the words of others can bring back good memories of our past, your experience of Creation. I think that’s what this is all about. I love the idea that you stop by and in some way, receive the gift and then share that with us. I hope you two are doing well and enjoying life! And, in my eyes you are a servant of peace and goodwill to others and the universe.