. . . when you’re savoring an image

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A beautiful way of living in the world expressed by Naomi Shihab Nye in an interview with Krista Tippet, On Being —
“You are living in a poem.”
“What do you mean, we’re living in a poem?” . . . “When? All the time, or just when someone talks about poetry?” And I’d say, “No; when you think, when you’re in a very quiet place, when you’re remembering, when you’re savoring an image, when you’re allowing your mind calmly to leap from one thought to another — that’s a poem. That’s what a poem does.”