
[Unedited] Michael Longley with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Love, Poetry, Is the Heart of the Enterprise
I listen to something you did for radio three a few years ago where they asked poets to write their own version of rika's letter to a young poet. I think it was, dear allison, alison, i want e nice middle class more than i see din't get that new ance. Em, you saw rilka in this line, which you quoted to allison, which i quote all the time. Rilka wrote about love, that love is the utmost, the ultimate trial and test,. And em and you've said that love, poetry, is the heart of the enterprise. But when you say that, you're taking love out of a little box
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