What am I? Everything that I have seen, heard, and observed. I have collected and exploited. My works have been nourished by countless different individuals, by innocent and wise ones, people of intelligence and dunces. … I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name of Goethe.*
Wolfgang von Goethe

You are unrepeatable,
Anything but a copy,
And yet, the reason for this
is your openness to others and all
around you –
Teachers and guides
Are not only human.

Perhaps so far unnoticed,
We now lean into this path, and
the only term that has come to me
so far for walkers of this path is
The Wise.

*Lewis Hyde’s Common As Air.