‘How not to be lonely’

Downtown Worcester from Norfolk Street. The city is in a very hilly area.

Photo by Terageorge   

“When I was a boy in Worcester, Massachusetts, my family lived on the top of a hill, at the thin edge of the city, with woods beyond. Much of the time I was alone, but I learned how not to be lonely, exploring the surrounding fields and the old Indian trails.’’

— Stanley Kunitz (1905-2006), poet, including as the U.S. poet laureate