Remember Love with the poet Cleo Wade

A Bit of Optimism

The Optimism Company from Simon Sinek

Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Management, Education

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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We are told from a young age to pursue love—romantic love, self-love, divine love. But how do you actually define love? And once you do, how do you find it? Cleo Wade is the right person to ask. She's a poet whose latest book is called “Remember Love: Words for Tender Times.” Our conversation about love led down many paths: we talked about appreciating pain, staying present, and the resurgence of poetry. This is... A Bit of Optimism.

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0:00.0	We are told from a young age to pursue love, self-love, romantic love, divine love.
0:13.4	But what exactly is love?
0:15.6	And whether you configure that out or not, how are we supposed to work towards it?
0:20.5	Well, Cleo Wade is the right person to talk to.
0:24.6	She is a poet whose latest book is called Remember Love, words for tender times, and she
0:30.3	thinks a lot about love.
0:33.6	Our conversation led down many paths.
0:36.1	We talked about balancing the beauty and catastrophe of the world, appreciating pain,
0:41.7	staying present, and the resurgence of poetry.
0:45.2	I hope you will love this conversation as much as I did.
0:49.7	Yes, is a bit of optimism.
0:55.4	You are a poet, and what I find funny about having poets in our modern day is it sounds
1:01.2	medieval.
1:02.2	You know, it's like you're a blacksmith, you're a Cooper, and you're a poet.
1:06.0	We have a poet laureate in this country, there's a poet laureate in the UK, and like if
1:10.5	somebody said, you know we have a poet laureate, you'd be like, we do, like we still have
1:13.7	one of those.
1:14.7	Didn't we get rid of those in like the 1800s?
1:17.7	And so I'm fascinated by what it feels like to be a poet in a modern day where it doesn't
1:23.4	seem to be a thing anymore.
1:24.4	Like kids don't say one day I'm going to be a poet, right?
1:27.0	It was hard actually, like 10 years ago when I was writing a hard talk.
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