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What is your favorite poem and why?
Poems may be the keys to understanding how the invisible pieces of our soul fit together. Poems are tools that help us not only to understand ourselves but also the world around us.
As Amartya Sen said - "If one can find the right poem, quoting someone else can be as much an expression of one's deeper self as anything one can write oneself."
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Libbey Koppinger
His poetry has a cadence that puts the reader deeply in touch with the subject matter.
For me, "A Clear Midnight" is that space in between awake and asleep. It describes a winding down of thought and has always felt like a personal lullaby, the gift of a clear conscious and the promise of a good nights sleep.
There is a gentleness to Whitman that I have always loved.
A Clear Midnight
THIS is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,
Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done,
Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou
lovest best.
Night, sleep, and the stars.
Walt Whitman
Zahra Amini