[Unedited] Michael Longley with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Poetry and Words
In the ashes outside the crematoria in isfitz, they discovered scraps of poems. And these are people who are going to their deaths, and they found time to write a poem. I man, poetry would not exist without that care with words. That becomes such a critical i think that's one lorfor our society. Wrigt civic. One o the duties of the art, or the writer, of the poet, is and to use words with precision. You know, let me quote, you know, the the end of mossbon sunlight by hene. And here is love like a tinsmith's scoop sunk past its gleam in the meal bin.
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