David Whyte - The Practice of the Imagination

one of the very important practices in the outer Porterie is the practice of the imagination and normally in everyday lay life we think of the imagination as the ability to think up new things but to corage or Keats this would have been the secondary imagination or the fantasy and in the poetic tradition the primary imagination is the ability of a human being to form a central image inside of themselves that makes sense of all of the thousand besieging images that they're surrounded by and your ability to actually identify this internal focus which holds all of these disparate Fossey out in the world all of these disparate qualities and the ability to put language to that internal focus gives you an ability to belong to even the most complex circumstances there's a part of the human being that knows what's going on knows where to place itself at the center of the pattern knows exactly what to say to exactly the right person at exactly the right time in their life that's poetry

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Keywords: Whyte, AGM, PROOFED, 13, 12

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Length: 1min 44sec (104 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 19 2012