I'm not sure if I'd recognize what Kennedy's speech writer meant by poetry.
But like much of this discussion it seems we're in the realm of religion,
and someone else's religion is fruitless to challenge.
Mark
At 02:11 PM 1/13/2001 -0800, Jon Corelis wrote:
> I know, he was a politician and may well have been speaking from
>motives as discreditable as any politician's. Still, really, seriously,
>try to visualize without breaking into guffaws any subsequent American
>president managing to get his mouth around:
>
>
> When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his
> limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry
> reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When
> power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
>
> -- John F. Kennedy
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