that marriage is something so many still have faith in is a remarkable thing.Perhaps that is why people like poetry to be a part of a wedding. After funerals, they are the occasion in a person's life when they are most likely to turn to poetry. Not for entertainment or ritual. But because it is a rare thing when those feelings that unsettle our lives and re-make us over and over, that undermine us as well as prop us up, find some kind of public expression, however hard the cymbals and drums crash on and try to drown them out. There are not many moments in our lives when saying something makes it fact.
from The Guardian: Poetry and pantomime
then The Huffington Post: A Poem for the Royal Wedding?
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