
S1E2: Longing and Beauty
Being Known Podcast
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Is There a Beauty in Memorizing a Poem?
i would love for our listeners to go back and just hear you describe that story over and over again, because what you've described reminds me of a couple of things about beauty. We don't read a poem and it just becomes part of us. We actually have to work at beauty. And if you memorize that poema, you're having to work. You've got a burn energy. You have to put effort into this. Now, sometimes we're walking through the woods and we come upon a brilliant sunset, and it doesn't feel like we have to work very hard to be captivated by that. But most of beauty, much of beauty, must be acquired. There is
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