Monday, August 5, 2024

The Poetic Vocation

I always thought the poetic vocation was to be
as Hesse said "the bearer of human longing" and 
to convey Divine mystery. I think about the "ordinary extraordinary"
as Goethe put it as well that surrounds us all of the time.
has always given great insight since 1990 or so.

8/5/2024


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