The other day, I came across a video of Ethan Hawke talking about poetry. He said something very interesting that caught my attention. He basically said that most people don’t think about poetry in their day-to-day until something happens to them — some change, transformation, heartache, loss, trauma, or intense experience whether negative or positive, and then suddenly they begin to turn to poetry to make sense of what is happening to them (video here, start at 2:00).

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