Marilyn Nelson — Communal Pondering in a Noisy World
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Relationship Between Poetry and Silence
I want to talk about your understanding of the relationship between poetry and silence. Said, poetry out of silence. Theyit' a gift, in a way. It's a out of a kind of universal silence that takes us into or private silence. I think that's why reading poetry, reading it alone, silently, takes us some place where we can't get ordinarily. Poetry opens us to this otherness that exists within us....
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