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“I also learned that
you respond physically to poetry.
Your hair stands on end.
Your skin bristles.
Your heart goes faster. […]
If you don’t
understand a poem, so what?
Just listen to it.
Just taste it.”
~ Philip Pullman,
in The Wand in the Word:
Conversations with Writers of Fantasy
Pullman's words jumped out at me when I was reading The Wand in the Word a few months ago. I like how he describes the response to poetry -- as well as his advice. Listen to poetry. Taste it. How does it make you feel?
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