
[Unedited] David Whyte with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett
What Does Poetry Do in the Middle of a Work Place?
i feel like people respond to poetry as though they were starving for it, but didn't know it. And so i wonder what you have learned about how does poetry land in the middle of a work place and working life? What does it do in us and for us in that context? Well, i always say that poetry is language against which you have no defences. Otherwise it's not poetry. It's prose, which is about something. You get beautiful echoes and chorus and repetitions in marital arguments. But in a good marital argument, when one person has said the truth, both people are emansemancipated into the next stage of the of the relationship. S right?
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