"Credo" by Alfred Kreymborg

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I sing the will to love: the will that carves the will to live, the will that saps the will to hurt, the will that kills the will to die; the will that made and keeps you warm, the will that points your eyes ahead, the will that makes you give, not get, a give and get that tell us what you are: how much a god, how much a human. I call on you to live the will to love.                This poem is in the public domain. About This Poem   "Credo" was published in Mushrooms: A Book of Free Forms (John Marshall Company, 1916).   Alfred Kreymborg was born in 1883 in New York City. Author of The Selected Poems, 1912­–1944 (E. P. Dutton, 1945) and No More War, and Other Poems (Bookman Associates, 1950), among other books, Kreymborg was also editor of the modernist magazine Broom: An International Magazine of the Arts. He died in 1966. "Flash" by Hazel Hall "Against Dying" by Kaveh Akbar "1939" by Marjorie Agosín May Guest Editor: Matthew Shenoda   Thanks to Matthew Shenoda, author of Tahrir Suite: Poems (TriQuarterly Books, 2014), who curated Poem-a-Day this month. Read more about Shenoda and our guest editors for the year. Help Support Poem-a-Day   If you value Poem-a-Day, please consider a monthly donation or one-time gift to help make it possible. Poem-a-Day is the only digital series publishing new, previously unpublished work by today's poets each weekday morning. The free series, which also features a curated selection of classic poems on weekends, reaches 450,000+ readers daily. Thank you! Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038