Yet another YouTube video of Sarah Kay, giving a Ted talk on how and where she finds poetry. A quote --
“Maybe it’s not my job to invent something new. Maybe it’s my job to listen to what the universe is showing me and to keep myself open to what the universe offers so that when it’s my turn, I can hold something to the light - just for a moment, just for as long as I have. The universe has already written the poem that you were planning on writing, and this is why you can do nothing but point at the flow of starlings whose bodies rise and fall in inherited choreography, swarming the sky in a sweeping curtain, that for one blistering moment forms the unmistakable shape of a giant bird flapping against the sky. It is why your mouth forms an O that is not a gasp, but rather the beginning of 'oh, of course.'”
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