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marcicatfrom tumblr user grubloved on May 4, 2025:
reading lynda barry i am noticing again the thing i like to call 'everything is poetry' which is that poets think the world is made of poems and that interacting with poetry is the most honorable and fulfilling and important thing to do. which i think is funny because the majority of people do not interact with poetry and in fact many do not like it at all. but poets continue on anyway and poetry remains for them the pin on which the world turns.
and artists feel this way about the image writers about writing and stories and robin wall kimmerer about looking at plants. again it is never the thing itself that is blessed but the person who is being in the mode of blessedness who receives it as such. the world is full of things that will save you if you let them
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ANYWAY I read that yesterday and had to sit and think about it for a while, and also look up the phrase 'the world is full of things that will save you if you let them.' (way too many links that tried to explain the 'let them' theory to me, none that indicated that's a quote from something famous)
I wish that I also had some deep words of wisdom to add onto this, but I will just say I think it's great, and true, and I love the idea that loving things is what makes life beautiful and meaningful.
reading lynda barry i am noticing again the thing i like to call 'everything is poetry' which is that poets think the world is made of poems and that interacting with poetry is the most honorable and fulfilling and important thing to do. which i think is funny because the majority of people do not interact with poetry and in fact many do not like it at all. but poets continue on anyway and poetry remains for them the pin on which the world turns.
and artists feel this way about the image writers about writing and stories and robin wall kimmerer about looking at plants. again it is never the thing itself that is blessed but the person who is being in the mode of blessedness who receives it as such. the world is full of things that will save you if you let them
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ANYWAY I read that yesterday and had to sit and think about it for a while, and also look up the phrase 'the world is full of things that will save you if you let them.' (way too many links that tried to explain the 'let them' theory to me, none that indicated that's a quote from something famous)
I wish that I also had some deep words of wisdom to add onto this, but I will just say I think it's great, and true, and I love the idea that loving things is what makes life beautiful and meaningful.
