[Unedited] Mary Oliver with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett
What's the Point of Writing Shorter Poems?
i have had rash, which seems to be continuing, of writing shorter poems. If you can say it in a few lines, you're just decorating for the rest of it. How many roads did saint augustine follow before he became Saint Augustine? Same thing. What else is there to say? So, i've got a poem that will start at the next book, and i think it goes like this, ah, things take the time they take. Don't worry. Oh, yes, i and iu will be hard at. It's so perfect. It kind ofs like, what's point of writing 50 thous bringing 50 thousand new words into the world? This
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