The name of a poem about a poet being happy that someone has forgotten the title of their poem I read this poem in a collection and now I can't find it. It starts with the poet talking about how they were approached by someone who had loved one of their poems. But the reader could not remember the name of the poem. This delighted the poet because, not only had the poem moved the reader, but someday they would rediscover it and be moved all over again as if they were reading it for the first time. **Does anybody know the name of this poem, and the name of the poet?** (P.S. Yes, I am aware of the irony here)

I actually found it myself. I remembered the collection I had read it in and searched through it. It is _The Secret_ by Denise Levertov.

_Two girls discover_

_the secret of life_

_in a sudden line of_

_poetry._

_I who don’t know the_

_secret wrote_

_the line. They_

_told me_

_(through a third person)_

_they had found it_

_but not what it was_

_not even_

_what line it was. No doubt_

_by now, more than a week_

_later, they have forgotten_

_the secret,_

_the line, the name of_

_the poem. I love them_

_for finding what_

_I can’t find,_

_and for loving me_

_for the line I wrote,_

_and for forgetting it_

_so that_

_a thousand times, till death_

_finds them, they may_

_discover it again, in other_

_lines_

_in other_

_happenings. And for_

_wanting to know it,_

_for_

_assuming there is_

_such a secret, yes,_

_for that_

_most of all._

I realise now that I had the description a little bit wrong. That's the trouble with memory I suppose.