{"podcast":{"title":"Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness","slug":"inspirational-living-life-lessons-for-success-happiness-620316","podcast_index_feed_id":620316,"rss_url":"https://feeds.redcircle.com/0e6e1ab5-84dc-4b80-8da1-c99012ccfbf2","website_url":"https://redcircle.com/shows/inspirational-living","image_url":"https://media.redcircle.com/images/2025/4/15/3/d38919f4-c652-45e4-a7ea-f2187bebda73_41e1-ab3c-c3c66e4123ba_inspirational_living_v2.jpg","author":"The Living Hour","episode_count":653,"summary":"With 25+ million downloads, the Inspirational Living has been offering motivational broadcasts for the mind, body, and spirit since 2016. If you want to find a free online life coach, look no further than the most motivational self-help authors of the past. Each self-development podcast is edited & adapted from the books and essays of classic inspirational writers, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Helen Keller, Booker T. Washington, James Allen, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Orison Swett Marden, Neville Goddard, and Frederick Douglass, as well as self-development authors who have largely been lost to history but deserve to be re-discovered again and enjoyed. Subscribe to our inspirational podcast to receive new free podcasts every week. Live up to the potential of your highest self. Buy our best-selling trilogy of books based on the readings heard on the podcast at: https://livinghour.org/books Or visit Amazon.com Support us on Patreon for full transcripts and access to the series Our Sunday Talks: https://www.patreon.com/inspirationalpodcasts","last_synced_at":"2026-09-04T16:23:46.498617+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/inspirational-living-life-lessons-for-success-happiness-620316"},"episode":{"title":"The Necessity of Poetry in Life","slug":"the-necessity-of-poetry-in-life","published_at":"2026-08-11T07:47:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/inspirational-living-life-lessons-for-success-happiness-620316/the-necessity-of-poetry-in-life","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/inspirational-living-life-lessons-for-success-happiness-620316","url":"http://livinghour.org/books","audio_url":"https://audio1.redcircle.com/episodes/82f78b3b-34bf-4b80-b66b-260ee7ca51e0/stream.mp3","summary":"Listen to episode 1145 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Importance of Poetry in Life. Edited and adapted from Life's Enthusiasms by David Starr Jordan. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Poetry is truth expressed in the fewest possible words, in words which are inevitable, in words which could not be changed without weakening the meaning or throwing discord into the melody. To choose the right word and to discard all others, this is the chief factor in good writing. To learn good poetry by heart is to acquire help toward doing this instinctively, automatically as other habits are acquired. In the affairs of life, then, no form of good manners, no habit of usage, is more valuable than the habit of good English. My message today is an appeal to enthusiasm in the things of life, a call to do things because you love them, to love things because you do them, to keep the eyes open, the heart warm and the pulses swift, as you move across the field of life. --------------------- Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/books Get our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patron Transform your life in 30 days with our MAJESTY meditation program: https://livinghour.org/majesty . Get 30% off with the coupon code: INSPIRATION Our Sponsors: * Check out Shopify and use my code shopify.com/inspirational for a great deal: https://www.shopify.com Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy","meta_description":"Listen to episode 1145 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Importance of Poetry in Life. Edited and adapted from Life's Enthusiasms by David Starr Jo…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1013,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/inspirational-living-life-lessons-for-success-happiness-620316/episodes/the-necessity-of-poetry-in-life/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/inspirational-living-life-lessons-for-success-happiness-620316/the-necessity-of-poetry-in-life.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}