[Poetry has] a social function to remind us of our deep self
and a core of joy and grief; [it helps] us live in that place rather than in
some other less deep place. I love the Cherokee greeting; in the morning, they
greet each other and say, ‘How deep is your well?’ Sometimes their well’s not
very deep, and sometimes it is, and poetry puts you in that place where it goes
down to the water table.
Coleman Barks
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