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The Ant

By Robert Bly
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A poem celebrating the music and movement inherent in our existence.

In respect of copyright, we cannot display the poem here. Click the link to read it.

Read on www.theatlantic.com

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The Courage to Create—Poetry in the Age of Technology

"The lowest trees have tops..."--William Shakespeare

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David Whyte
2011
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David Whyte Reads “The Lightest Touch”

Poet David Whyte reads his original poem titled “The Lightest Touch” about the physical act of writing poetry. He reads it at the discussion he had with Krista Tippett, hosted by Cambridge Forum.

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David Whyte
2017
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David Whyte: The Practice of the Imagination

David Whyte provides a short practice from his audio program, Clear Mind, Wild Heart.

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David Whyte
2012
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Start Close In by David Whyte

David Whyte recites his own poem Start Close In.

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David Whyte
2012
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Ram Dass: In Between Stories

Ram Dass shares a revealing piece of wisdom that looks at how we find ourselves stuck in-between the stories of the past, served to us through culture, religion and politics, and what we are discovering to be true about the nature of things.

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Ram Dass
2020
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Why Story Is Essential to Social Transformation - Jean Houston

Meridian University Chancellor Jean Houston discusses a new story for higher education.

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Jean Houston
2014
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Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke (English and German Edition)

The reputation of Rainer Maria Rilke has grown steadily since his death in 1926; today he is widely considered to be the greatest poet of the twentieth century.

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Rainer Maria Rilke, Stephen Mitchell (translator)
1995
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Leavings: Poems

No one writes like Wendell Berry. Whether essay, novel, story, or poem, his inimitable voice rings true, as natural as the land he has farmed in Kentucky for over 40 years.

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Wendell Berry
2011
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The Country of Marriage: Poems

First published in 1971, The Country of Marriage is Wendell Berry’s fifth volume of poetry. What he calls “an expansive metaphor” is “a farmer’s relationship to his land as the basic and central relation of humanity to creation.

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Wendell Berry
2013
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New Collected Poems

Here, Wendell Berry revisits for the first time his immensely popular Collected Poems, which The New York Times Book Review described as “a straightforward search for a life connected to the soil, for marriage as a sacrament, and family life” and “[returns] American poetry to a Wordsworthian...

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Wendell Berry
2013
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