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[Unedited] Mary Oliver with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Is There an Unromantic Part to the Process as Well?

There's an unromantic, ah, part to the process as well. Yo, and i had decided very early that i wanted to be a poet. That's when iold try and that i would not be able to have brand new cupboards and a computer and a car. A lot of poems i wrote on the kitchen table, because i wouldn't give up the time and the energy to e to have those unimportant things,. nice, but don't need them. You gave voice to this kind of really lavish, even ornate beauty that you tha, that you lived in.that was your daily life.

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