[Unedited] Mary Oliver with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Is It All Sweetness and Light in Your Poems?
M, i think it's important and may be helpful for people. that there's so much beauty and light in your poetry also, that you let in a the fact that it's not all sweetness and light. I poems are notably and a lot moreo, i didn't know at that time, n what i was writing about. You mean, you didn't realize that they were so hard, or you literally didn't know what you were? There's a poem called rage, yes, and i a, it says, she ya. But i couldn't handle that material, except in three or four poems that i've donet. Just couldn't.
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