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Nick Flynn Reads Zoë Hitzig

The New Yorker: Poetry

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Poetry's Quantum Nature

Poetry teaches the concept of conflicting truths coexisting, illustrated by the example of a book containing poems where a grandfather is both alive and dead. This phenomenon mirrors quantum physics' wave-particle duality, showcasing how poets foreshadowed this concept before quantum physics discovered it.

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