Thought for the Day

To watch a heart being emptied

of trust and desire is to see something

elemental: not a worm's turning

but a tide's. [. . .]

~ Sam Willetts

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Quoted from Sam Willetts, "You and St. Kevin and the Birds" in New Light for the Old Dark (Cape Poetry, 2010), page 48 (The collection, Willetts's first, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize, the Costa Prize, and the T.S. Eliot Prize.)

Sam Willetts, English Poet

Sam Willetts Profiles at Next Generation Poets 2014 (Poetry Book Society) and Poetry Foundation

Sam Willetts Interview at The Guardian