So it is true that if you want to live as other people live,
if you want to buy a lot of refrigerators and cars,
if you want to be successful, if you want
to add to the gross national product,
you will be able to see some things in life,
but not everything.
And if you want to abandon all that
and be interested in solitude, you can see other things.
You won't see everything there either,
because life is a choice between two things.
Here's a little poem touching on that called "The Loon."
From far out in the center of the naked lake
the loon's cry rose.
It was the cry of someone who owned very little.
Have you ever heard a loon?
It's a northern thing, goes [CAW]..
Strange sound.
But it's a cry of someone who owns very little.
And I suppose a poet cry is the same.