Possible Love Affair
If Romeo and Juliet had made appointments
to meet, in the moonlight-swept orchard,
in all the peril and sweetness of conspiracy,
and then more often than not failed to meet —
one of the other lagging, or afraid, or busy elsewhere —
there would have been no romance, no passion,
none of the drama for which we remember
and celebrate them.
Writing a poem is not so different —
it is a kind of possible love affair
between something like the heart
(that courageous but also shy factory of emotion)
and the learned skills of the conscious mind.
by Mary Oliver
from Poetic Outlaws
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