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David Whyte on The Art of Poetry and Prose

The One You Feed

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Zen - Is Enlightenment a Real Conversation?

i was going to ask you where the cross over point is for you, and i think you just answered, which is real conversation. And that's why there's a very powerful kind of companionship between the apprenticeship to try and deep states of intentionality in zen or any contemplative tradition. I mean, you could say that prose is really about something. Poetry is the thing itself, or it should be good poetry as at least. The central practice, even in the christian tradition, is about this direct perception, tis cloud of unknowing. Ye gave way to necessary grief. That door, which is no door at all. Ora, where you actually want

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