Everything except language
knows the meaning of existence.
Trees, planets, rivers, time
know nothing else. They express it
moment by moment as the universe.
Even this fool of a body
lives it in part, and would
have full dignity within it
but for the ignorant freedom
of my talking mind.
Les Murray is Australia's leading contemporay poet. He won many literary awards, among them the prestigious T.S. Eliot Award in 1996. To know more about Les Murray and his poetry ... click here
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