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Mary Oliver — “I got saved by the beauty of the world.”

On Being with Krista Tippett

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What Does Poetry Do With a Question Like That That Other Forms of Language Don't?

There's an unromantic a part o the process as well. You wrote, you know, what does it mean that the earth is so beautiful, and what shall i do about it? A ha, haa, what is the gift that i should bring to the world? What is the life that should live? Which really is a question of moral imagination. And it's an end. It's the ancient essential question. We i think i would disagree that other forms of language don't. But poetry has a different kind of attraction.

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