It's about learning to listen, much like in music. You can train your ears to history. You can train your ears to the earth. You can train your ears to the wind. It's important to listen and then to study the world, like astronomy or geology or the names of birds. A lot of poets can be semihistorians. Poetry is very mathematical. There's a lot in the theoretical parts that is similar. Quantum physicists remind me of mystics. They are aware of what happens in timelessness, though they speak of it through theories and equations. (Joy Harjo)

It's about learning to listen, much like in music. You can train your ears to history. You can train your ears to the earth. You can train your ears to the wind. It's important to listen and then to study the world, like astronomy or geology or the names of birds. A lot of poets can be semihistorians. Poetry is very mathematical. There's a lot in the theoretical parts that is similar. Quantum physicists remind me of mystics. They are aware of what happens in timelessness, though they speak of it through theories and equations.

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