I included this short poem because I think it speaks to something that is a dream for many of us: to be seen by the people we admire and be told that they too were like us, which means that we can become like them. We all want to feel like we are capable of the greatness we aspire to, and the fact that this poem is about dreaming of of greatness in poetry adds another layer of meaning to it.
Such a sweet dream. I dreamed
I was having a conversation
with the great poets—Manuel
Bandeira and Carlos Drummond
de Andrade. “I was born
tired, hungry, and cold,” I said.
And Drummond answered, “I too.”