Poetry

 

 

Anne Sexton, "Doctors" (excerpt below)
(full text)

"The doctors should fear arrogance
more than cardiac arrest.
If they are too proud,
and some are,
then they leave home on horseback
but God returns them on foot. "

 

W. H. Auden, "Surgical Ward" (excerpt below)

"For who when healthy can become a foot ?
Even a scratch we can't recall when cured,
But are boist'rous in a moment and believe

In the common world of the uninjured, and cannot
Imagine isolation."