Philosophy and the Poetic ImaginationNew York Times (blog)Poetry is a form in which this reader engagement is particularly striking and important.
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httpv://vimeo.com/59413160 Dying Is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. These three terse lines---with their offhandedly morbid. Delete the scoop?
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We don't want to believe these days that a person is capable of independent thought and action. And we like to believe the facile thing - radical Islam. But the truth is - hardened thought that raises an Idea above the value of a human being will always be threatening. Ideas have interchangeable vocabulary .... White Supremacy, the True Believer, Radical Islam .... Ironically, ideas can also sound like Human Rights, ProLife, Women's Rights. It's a wise mind that can weigh the idea against the humanity, the mind against the heart, Righteousness against forgivemess .... Above all there is life. To quote the poet: "Do I contradict myself? Very well, I contradict myself. I am large. I contain multitudes" 
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We don't want to believe these days that a person is capable of independent thought and action. And we like to believe the facile thing - radical Islam. But the truth is - hardened thought that raises an Idea above the value of a human being will always be threatening. Ideas have interchangeable vocabulary .... White Supremacy, the True Believer, Radical Islam .... Ironically, ideas can also sound like Human Rights, ProLife, Women's Rights. It's a wise mind that can weigh the idea against the humanity, the mind against the heart, Righteousness against forgivemess .... Above all there is life. To quote the poet: "Do I contradict myself? Very well, I contradict myself. I am large. I contain multitudes"
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