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[Unedited] Gregory Orr with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Creative Process Is Presided Over by Two Greek Gods

There is this order and disorder that we're always straddling. And somewhere you've said, ut, what these, 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 ksome, it's o k somehow there's sense to this. But re stabilizing theself, yes, but going through chaos first. For a complete creative thing to happen, dionysus has to appear first. The risk that poets take, as all humans do, is the risk open to disorder and hope that the other god will appear...

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