Dear Maggie Steele:
This is a poem written by Thomas Wolfe for his posthumously published novel You Can’t Go Home Again.
EXCERPT FROM “CREDO”
Something has spoken to me in the night,
burning the tapers of the waning year;
something has spoken in the night,
and told me I shall die, I know not where.
Saying:
“To lose the earth you know, for greater
knowing; to lose the life you have, for
greater life; to leave the friends you loved,
for greater loving; to find a land more kind
than home, more large than earth —
“— Whereon the pillars of this earth are
founded, toward which the conscience of the
world is tending — a wind is rising, and the
rivers flow.”
Best wishes to you and your publication.
Sincerely,