Pádraig Ó Tuama: Moving from Pain to Joy
A Life of Greatness
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The Importance of Poetry
I love that it can give you an ache of your own sadness or an uplifting of something. There's a great poet Meg Carney, she's got a poem called Creed. She has this lovely line in it that says, I believe in the long, slow swoop of tongue down the lover's belly. And then there's an Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh who has a poem called Snail and is part of it. So there's just lines like that that you can repeat to yourself like a prayerThat just give you a sense of somebody else in their own lonely writing wrote something that connects to me. But somehow their words reach out. You studied for a time around religious Jewish
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