A Poet Reflects

February 18, 2012 with 50 notes
        tags: beloved. Last Fragment. poetry. Raymond Carver.
Late Fragment And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so?I did. And what did you want?To call myself beloved, to feel myselfbeloved on the earth. —Raymond Carver, from New Path to the Waterfall (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989)

Late Fragment

And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.

—Raymond Carver, from New Path to the Waterfall (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989)


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