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On Being with Krista Tippett

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Poetry and the Politics of Politics

i've experienced in my lifetime how poetry rises up in culture after culture, especially in moments of crisis. I'm starting to see it more connected to the idea of how music happens in us,. Poetry makes room for questions that are unanswerable and that for them to sit there. i don't know where the hotel california is re to gather, but i love that song. Everybody has a favorite poem, right? We can read that poem over and over again. And its like music. You can always hear your favorite song over and over well. It's not usually taught to just let it be in us and let it breathe in us.

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