What Happens When You Tune In?

Elizabeth Gilbert said that Ruth Stone, who's now in her 90s has been a poet her entire life. She described when she was growing up in rural Virginia, she'd be out walking in the fields,. And she would feel and hear a poem coming at her from over the landscape. The whole deal was that she had to get to a piece of paper and a pencil fast enough so that when it thundered through her, she could collect it on the page.