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The poet's self-appointed vocation is precisely that of being the bearer, the speaker, of wisdom. As the poet Shelley once said, "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of this world." Suggested here is that poets are in touch with the real issues -- therefore, governments should not ignore their words. Perhaps every President's cabinet needs a resident poet!
It has often been said that the poet is nature's priest, keeping humankind in touch with the sublime and showing that the sublime is natural and the ordinary, sublime. The poet stands for the beauty of this world, the liberty of the individual, and a divine sense of leisure. That sense wells up from a spirit of affirmation and wonder.
Wisdom says, listen to the poets among you. ("Why Presidents Need Poets" by Paul Roche, Notre Dame Magazine, May 1981, p 72.)
-- Grossmann
The poet's self-appointed vocation is precisely that of being the bearer, the speaker, of wisdom. As the poet Shelley once said, "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of this world." Suggested here is that poets are in touch with the real issues -- therefore, governments should not ignore their words. Perhaps every President's cabinet needs a resident poet!
It has often been said that the poet is nature's priest, keeping humankind in touch with the sublime and showing that the sublime is natural and the ordinary, sublime. The poet stands for the beauty of this world, the liberty of the individual, and a divine sense of leisure. That sense wells up from a spirit of affirmation and wonder.
Wisdom says, listen to the poets among you. ("Why Presidents Need Poets" by Paul Roche, Notre Dame Magazine, May 1981, p 72.)
-- Grossmann
