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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=569200" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Poetry, Not Prose</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tom Friedman says that we need poetry, not prose, <br>to get this country into better shape.<br>Although we surely know a rose would be a rose<br>if called by any other name, a grape<br>becomes much more when sublimated into wine, <br>and politics don’t matter till its message<br>becomes poetic. Prose won’t help to make it shine, <br>and all predications politicians presage<br>won’t come to pass unless they’re elevated with<br>poetic language that shifts paradigms, <br>and brings into reality what seemed mere myth, <br>promoting the prosaic with its rhymes.<br>We need a narrative that we can memorize, <br>not complicated data on a chart, <br>and yearn for tuneful songs that we can harmonize, <br>and poems we love learning off by heart. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Inspired by an Op-Ed article by Thomas Friedman in the NYT, November 1,2009, exhorting President Obama to be more poetic (“More Poetry Please”) : <br>More and more lately, I find people asking me: What do you think President Obama really believes about this or that issue? I find that odd. How is it that a president who has taken on so many big issues, with very specific policies — and has even been awarded a Nobel Prize for all the hopes he has kindled — still has so many people asking what he really believes? I don’t think that President Obama has a communications problem, per se. He has given many speeches and interviews broadly explaining his policies and justifying their necessity. Rather, he has a “narrative” problem….<br>“Obama’s election marked a shift — from a politics that celebrated privatized concerns to a politics that recognized the need for effective government and larger public purposes. Across the political spectrum, people understood that national renewal requires big ambition, and a better kind of politics, ” said the Harvard political theorist Michael Sandel, author of the new best seller — “Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? ” — that calls for elevating our public discourse. But to deliver on that promise, Sandel added, Obama needs to carry the civic idealism of his campaign into his presidency. He needs a narrative that will get the same voters who elected him to push through his ambitious agenda — against all the forces of inertia and private greed. “You can’t get nation-building without shared sacrifice, ” said Sandel, “and you cannot inspire shared sacrifice without a narrative that appeals to the common good — a narrative that challenges us to be citizens engaged in a common endeavor, not just consumers seeking the best deal for ourselves. Obama needs to energize the prose of his presidency by recapturing the poetry of his campaign.” </div><div style="margin:10px 0">11/1/09</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gershon+Hepner">Gershon Hepner</a><div class=q>
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