Again in the vein of writer’s block, Jason Gray posts a poem by Wendell Berry called How to Be a Poet.

Make a place to sit down.

Sit down. Be quiet.

You must depend upon

affection, reading, knowledge,

skill—more of each

than you have—inspiration,

work, growing older, patience,

for patience joins time

to eternity. Any readers

who like your poems,

doubt their judgment. . . . read on