“One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits.”
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Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.
I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.
Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.
If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.
