WEBVTT

00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.930 align:middle line:90%


00:00:00.930 --> 00:00:03.930 align:middle line:90%
OK, what time did we start?

00:00:03.930 --> 00:00:04.430 align:middle line:90%
Eight.

00:00:04.430 --> 00:00:07.170 align:middle line:90%
Eight, OK.

00:00:07.170 --> 00:00:10.050 align:middle line:90%
OK, I'm getting behind.

00:00:10.050 --> 00:00:11.910 align:middle line:84%
On page seven, on
the right hand side,

00:00:11.910 --> 00:00:14.610 align:middle line:90%
skip the endless evening one.

00:00:14.610 --> 00:00:16.470 align:middle line:84%
Let's go right to the
one called "Sonnet."

00:00:16.470 --> 00:00:23.760 align:middle line:90%


00:00:23.760 --> 00:00:27.660 align:middle line:84%
This is addressed
to someone who you

00:00:27.660 --> 00:00:30.000 align:middle line:90%
think is very beautiful but--

00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:34.110 align:middle line:84%
well, I wrote this poem
out of astonishment,

00:00:34.110 --> 00:00:37.470 align:middle line:84%
or wonder, that I was with
this beautiful person,

00:00:37.470 --> 00:00:39.630 align:middle line:84%
I was beside this
beautiful person,

00:00:39.630 --> 00:00:44.070 align:middle line:84%
but somehow her
presence didn't seem

00:00:44.070 --> 00:00:46.350 align:middle line:90%
to really change that much.

00:00:46.350 --> 00:00:49.140 align:middle line:84%
As you can-- I mean,
nothing was the--

00:00:49.140 --> 00:00:54.780 align:middle line:84%
I mean, the president didn't
lay down the atomic bombs

00:00:54.780 --> 00:01:00.390 align:middle line:84%
because she was stepping out of
a cottage with me one morning,

00:01:00.390 --> 00:01:02.070 align:middle line:90%
or nothing happened.

00:01:02.070 --> 00:01:04.950 align:middle line:84%
As you can see, look at
the first line, it says,

00:01:04.950 --> 00:01:09.330 align:middle line:84%
"The way the world is
not astonished at you,

00:01:09.330 --> 00:01:13.260 align:middle line:84%
it doesn't blink a leaf when
we step from the house."

00:01:13.260 --> 00:01:16.900 align:middle line:84%
Nothing happens, I mean the
world doesn't stop and say,

00:01:16.900 --> 00:01:21.070 align:middle line:84%
hey, that person with Bill
Knott there is really beautiful,

00:01:21.070 --> 00:01:24.540 align:middle line:84%
and I think we should
all stop in our orbits,

00:01:24.540 --> 00:01:28.080 align:middle line:84%
and take a good
look at that person.

00:01:28.080 --> 00:01:31.800 align:middle line:84%
"The way the world is
not astonished at you,

00:01:31.800 --> 00:01:35.580 align:middle line:84%
it doesn't blink a leaf
when we step from the house,

00:01:35.580 --> 00:01:41.280 align:middle line:84%
leads me to think that beauty
is natural, unremarkable,

00:01:41.280 --> 00:01:45.060 align:middle line:84%
and not to be spoken of,
except in the course of things.

00:01:45.060 --> 00:01:47.430 align:middle line:84%
The course of singing,
and work sharing,

00:01:47.430 --> 00:01:50.290 align:middle line:84%
the course of squeezes,
and neighbors,

00:01:50.290 --> 00:01:53.970 align:middle line:84%
the course of tying back
your raving hair to go out,

00:01:53.970 --> 00:01:57.930 align:middle line:84%
and the course, of course,
of me, astonished at you,

00:01:57.930 --> 00:02:01.110 align:middle line:90%
the way the world is not."

00:02:01.110 --> 00:02:04.140 align:middle line:84%
You see, you-- the end, it turns
around, kind of cute, right?

00:02:04.140 --> 00:02:06.500 align:middle line:90%
[LAUGHTER]

00:02:06.500 --> 00:02:07.000 align:middle line:90%