Pope Francis Speaks to the Soul of Poetry
🖋️ Make America Poetic Again — Poetry fights back.
Speech
My child,
poetry is not a luxury.
It is prayer
in disguise.
The first act of creation
was not logic.
It was light.
That is a poem.
Words shape worlds.
When you forbid wonder,
you wound the human heart.
If you exile poets,
you exile truth.
If you silence song,
you silence hope.
Poetry is how
the voiceless speak
and how love
becomes language.
Do not fear beauty.
Do not fear mystery.
For grace often arrives
in couplets.
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