[Unedited] Richard Blanco with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett
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What Is the Transcendental Moment?
U, i think that's a great question, by the way. I always like to tell my students writing a poem is the stupidest, most arrogant, self absorbed, idiotic thing you can do in the world. But at the same time it's one of the most generous, giving, selfless, beautiful things yo can doing in the world. And thinking about and thinking about how my life, as an experience that i'm sharing and making art of, hopefully connects to others and lets them have an experience or memory that also its transform transformative. To me there's a transcendent moment where you suddenly look back, and then the poem stops becoming so much as it is
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