Henri Nouwen, Now & Then Podcast | Malcolm Guite, "Lifting the Veil"
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The Power of Poetry
I see a great similarity here in terms of the two of you here you are both priests and writers. If I feel entranced by an image or led forward by the musical sound of certain lines and I write them, there's always a point where the poem like a living thing sort of quickens and pushes back. The power of a work of art whether it's a poem or a piece of prose writing or a painting is to quicken with the life of its own. To have more than it has as it were to make more available than you thought was available when you start to write that seems to me to be a sign of the work of God the Spirit in the world.
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