Mysteries, Yes
Mysteries, Yes - meaning Summary
Wonder Without Final Answers
The poem argues that human life is shaped by wonders that cannot be fully explained: natural processes, love, longing, suffering, and the solace people find in poetry. Its speaker rejects certainty and instead values companions who meet the world with attention, humility, delight, and reverence. Mystery is not presented as a problem to solve, but as a condition that invites astonishment.
Read Complete AnalysesTruly, we live with mysteries too marvelous to be understood. How grass can be nourishing in the mouths of the lambs. How rivers and stones are forever in allegiance with gravity while we ourselves dream of rising. How two hands touch and the bonds will never be broken. How people come, from delight or the scars of damage, to the comfort of a poem. Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers. Let me keep company always with those who say “Look!” and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads.
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