Wendell Berry and Ellen Davis — The Art of Being Creatures
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Poetry Is Language That Speaks to Our Hearts
Poetry is language that speaks to our hearts. And it's very important m that, as you said, genesis one is a liturgical poem. In 20 first century language is our imaginations. The heart is the centre of our emotions, but also of our intellect. And two things cannot be separated. So i think it's important that in different s, the first and second chapters of the bible are telling us about our place in the world. They tell us about the web of relationships into which we are born,. We're placed within an that's a quite different way of thinking about ourselves than what we often take to be a literal reading of the bible....
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