[00:20.37]We don't read and write poetry because it's cute.
[00:23.75]We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.
[00:27.62]And the human race is filled with passion.
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[00:32.37]And medicine, law, business, engineering,
[00:34.25]These are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life.
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[00:38.28]But poetry, beauty, romance, love,
[00:43.47]These are what we stay alive for.
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[00:46.29]To quote from Whitman
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[00:48.40]"O me! O life!
[00:50.15]Of the questions of these recurring;
[00:52.71]Of the endless trains of the faithless
[00:55.14]Of cities filled with the foolish;
[00:56.98]What good amid these, O me, O life?"
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[01:58.73]We don't read and write poetry because it's cute.
[02:02.17]We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.
[02:05.82]And the human race is filled with passion.
[02:09.52]
[02:10.54]And medicine, law, business, engineering,
[02:12.51]These are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life.
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[02:17.84]But poetry,
[02:19.16]Beauty...
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