stunning words stolen from louise gluck

From a poem called "Birthday", this stanza knocked me out ...

That is the problem of silence:
one cannot test one's ideas.
Because they are not ideas, they are the truth.

Being stuck in a state of mind where I often feel like I have been driven into silence, these words are really potent and prophetic for me.

Thanks Louise

Comments

[Angi]

thinking.
still.
where can i find the rest of this poem?

[inilsJerdrime]

suhagrat story by wife