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ОглавлениеRIPPLES
OF
STILLNESS
BY
RALPH WRIGHT O.S.B.
Copyright 2011 Father Ralph Wright, OSB,
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INTRODUCTION
Poetry needs no introduction. If it cannot stand on its own feet it should not stand at all. These poems were written between 1959 and 1977, the product of many different moods and moments of my life. I am grateful to many people who have encouraged me to write. To Father Patrick Barry O.S.B., who advised me to read Classics (Greats) at Oxford, to Mr. Philip Smiley, who introduced me when at High School to Hopkins and Eliot. To Father Austin Rennick, O.S.B., Ms. Vicky Schauer, to Mr. Lemoine Skinner, Mr. Lee Hawes and Mr. Bo Naunheim for much encouragement, positive criticism and helpful enthusiasm. To many others— but above all to God, the Father of us all, from whom all the worthy thoughts have come. There is perhaps no more humbling experience than that of writing poetry: one seems at times to become a pen within His gentle competent hands. May all who read these poems be brought each day closer to Him
Ralph Wright
St. Louis Priory,
September 1977
