The great pleasure that comes from reading poets such as Mark Doty and Marianne Moore is the realisation that the essential virtues – compassion, wonder, humility, respect for the mysterious – are far from conventionally heroic.
Compassion
Young people, when they're left alone, always want to have compassion, and they always want to give. They always want to help people who are less fortunate.
Young people, when they’re left alone, always want to have compassion, and they always want to give. They always want to help people who are less fortunate.