The Blind Leading the Blind Take my hand. There are two of us in this cave. The sound you hear is water; you will hear it forever. ...You will learn … - Lisel Mueller
" "The Blind Leading the Blind
Take my hand. There are two of us in this cave.
The sound you hear is water; you will hear it forever.
...You will learn toads from diamonds, the fist from the palm,
love from the sweat of love, falling from flying.
...Once I fell off a precipice. Once I found gold.
...There are two of us here. Touch me.
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About Lisel Mueller
(born Elisabeth Neumann, February 8, 1924 – February 21, 2020) was a German-born American poet, translator and academic teacher. Her family fled the Nazi regime, and she arrived in the U.S. in 1939 at the age of 15. She worked as a literary critic and taught at the , Elmhurst College and . She began writing poetry in the 1950s and published her first collection in 1965, after years of self-study. She received awards including the in 1981 and the for Poetry in 1997, as the only German-born poet awarded that prize.
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and call the wind brother;
to be humble before a grain of sand
and speak familiarly to the sea;
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...o holy love, sweet lunacy,
which of us, seeing a child
exhorting a deaf robin,
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Be praised, my Lord, for Francis,
brother to lilies...
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