Video: Bill Moyers and poet Naomi Shihab Nye (poems and thoughts on haiku and life)
“We need that slow experience with words,” says Naomi Shihab Nye. And she says that is what we get from haiku. Here are two quotes that stood out for me in this quick video featuring journalist Bill Moyers.
“Life is short. We must move very slowly”
“Think about a haiku…”
Now here is the YouTube video:
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-Patrick
Fabulous! Thanks for sharing this, Gene (Meyers).
Thank you. I like what Naomi Shihab Nye said about trusting the poem – that we don’t need to know when we begin where the poem will go.
Seeing Bill Moyers also recalls the interview he did some time ago with Jane Kenyon and Donald Hall. I remember reading Jane Kenyon’s collected poems cover-to-cover. This is a book I reread – there is quiet, a sense of nature and place, and all that a life may hold.
Collected Poems
Jane Kenyon
Graywolf Press, Saint Paul, Minnesota
Copyright 2005 by the Estate of Jane Kenyon
Good thoughts…tried to slow the v i d e o down but it went too fast. 🙂
Well, my first thought was i’m not going to be as ardent
as John is, but . . .
Yes!