https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/12/11/nikki-giovannis-poems-library-librarians/ 

“Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant—there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing—and keeping the unknown always beyond you…”

The only way anybody ever learns to write well is by trying to write well. -LeGuin

Paris Review interview: the Art of Fiction interview no. 207, winter 2010

The Writer’s Craft Dot Com

Using First Person POV

for this, and many other reasons.

…is giving me ideas…

… world building

I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
With your one wild and precious life?

From “The summer day”;
New and Selected Poems 1992 by Mary Oliver