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On Being with Krista Tippett

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I'm chrysto tippet, and this is on being to day with the poet, philosopher david white. I sense all the way through your writing, in your poetry and your other writing, but i there's a sadness in you. And it's also one of these things about what you bring into the world that is a, i know people recognize it, but it's also a little bit frightening, yes? You describe it as wistfulness and poignancy, a kind of elegeic approach to life, an analogy.

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