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Poetry as religion

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Greatest Reward of Poetry?

The world is about to go through some terrible stuff, but it's not about to end and we're overselling that. A lot of this stuff is an after effect of the fact that we're living in a time of profound change with religion. If you can bear dropping all the things you think are holding you up, you'll notice you don't fall. It doesn't mean nothing. What it means is bigger than you. We make our own meaning to a degree. Mostly we join the meaning of the people around us and we figure that out. And it's a much more rewarding kind of life.

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