Mary Oliver — “I got saved by the beauty of the world.”
On Being with Krista Tippett
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What's the Point of Writing Shorter Poems?
i have had rash which to be continuing of writing shorter poems. I noticed that in or morian id probably is an influence from roomy, whose poems are, many of em, are quite short. And i think it goes like this, ah, things take the time they take. Don't worry. How many roads did saint augustine follow before he became saint augUSTine? Same i thing. What else is to say? and you know, that's four lines, and that's not a day's work. But, but, but the poem is done, and it speaks so completely perfectly to the eye who's reading om. Even though it's about saint august
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