I think of poets over the ages sending their voices out into the sky, leaving quiet, indelible trails. - Naomi Shihab Nye

Writing...helps us identify what makes the whole geography of our lives.

I kept thinking, as did millions of other people, what can we do? Writers, believers in words, could not give up words when the going got rough. I found myself, as millions did, turning to poetry. But many of us have always turned to poetry. Why should it be any surprise that people find solace in the most intimate literary genre? Poetry slows us down, cherishes small details. A large disaster erases those details. We need poetry for nourishment and for noticing, for the way language and imagery reach comfortably into experience, holding and connecting it more successfully than any news channel we could name.

why, out of all the talk, do you remember that thing?