"Poetry has its uses for despair. It can……" — Christian Wiman

Poetry has its uses for despair. It can carve a shape in… - Christian Wiman

"Poetry has its uses for despair. It can carve a shape in which a pain can seem to be; it can give one’s loss a form and dimension so that it might be loss and not simply a hopeless haunting. It can do these things for one person, or it can do them for an entire culture. But poetry is for psychological, spiritual, or emotional pain. For physical pain it is, like everything but drugs, useless."

— Christian Wiman

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