Jane Hirshfield – The Fullness of Things
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Poetry Is Not Just About Words
Poem is nothing unless it is completed with all the ingredients of the human heart and soul and spirit, knowledge and story. I write a poem because i am unable to answer whatever the fracture or bewilderment or question or provocation has come to me that i feel i do not yet understand or inhabit. And if i cannot figure it out, if something does not feel sufficient, if my understanding or my saturation of experience does not yet feel complete, and it's something that matters, that will send me to poetry. The job of poetry is to both entrance and at the same time break entrancement.
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