[Unedited] Michael Longley with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett
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What Use Is Poetry?
i like the em, the aristotelian notion of catharsis m and i think what art can do is to e tune you up. People occasionally ask in the butchers shops, they come up to me and they say, what use is poetry? Am? The answeris no use. But it doesn't mean to say that it's without value. It's without use, but it is value. And er, it's the first thing, the first people that dictators try to get rid of are the poets and the artists,. They're terrified of what poetry can do, keeps imagination alive.
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