He believes the role of art today is to resensitize people to the world and ordinary life.

“I think I mean that is the role of art in our age um is to resensitize people, to bring them back into the world, into experiencing ordinary life as a sacred thing.”

Poetry serves as a vital tool for processing emotions, experiences, and memories that are otherwise difficult to articulate.

“one of the reasons I love reaching for poetry is when I am feeling an emotion or going through an experience or revisiting a memory that feels unllanguageable. And then I discover that someone has found language for it in the form of a poem.”

Maria Shriver claims poetry is a powerful, accessible tool for healing and uncovering personal truth that everyone can practice.

“and my hope is that um it inspires others to write poetry which I think is a tool and not the kind of poetry I think of Mary Oliver CU that's so that's po it's a prizewinning poetry but it's really you know poetry from the front lines of all of our lives and I think that's a great tool to your heali”

The poem The Charge of the Light Brigade primarily serves to celebrate the courage of soldiers rather than their military success.

“it's also revered as an incredibly brave, courageous act. And that's what's celebrated. Not not the fact that they even um were successful. That's that's not the most celebrated fact. It was that these men just basically put their nose down and did what they they had to do.”