Poetic Obituaries: But what was strange on the few times

I heard [Ted] Kennedy quote poetry was how the meanings of individual poems often blurred and what lingered was a warm feeling that probably has its own long word in German meaning "how the great man quoting poems makes you feel more fleetingly ennobled than had the poet herself actually spoken."

from The Best American Poetry: Remembering Ted Kennedy [by Tom Healy]

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