Gregory Orr — Shaping Grief With Language
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Word, the Poem Holds the Disorder
There is this order and disorder that we're always straddling. And somewhere you said, what the words can do is it doesn't change the disorder. It holds the disorder. Which is the opposite move of well meaning people who want to say to anyone in a moment of crisis, somehow it's o k. The rational western tradition thinks you should also be able to rise above it....
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