{"title":"Poetry","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"poems-prayers-hardcover","title":"Poems \u0026 Prayers - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMatthew McConaughey\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Academy Award-winning actor and #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eGreenlights \u003c\/i\u003ecomes an inspiring, faith-filled, and often hilarious collection of personal poetry and prayers about navigating the rodeo of life and chasing down the original dream, belief. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy prayers are my poems are my prayers.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI've always relied on logic to make sense of myself and the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA prescriptionist at heart, I've always looked to reason to find the rhyme, the practical to get to the mystical, the choreography to find the dance, the proof to get to the truth, and reality to get to the dream. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI've been finding that tougher to do lately. It's more than hard to know what to believe in; it's hard to believe. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut I don't want to quit believing, and I don't want to stop believing \u003ci\u003ein . . .\u003c\/i\u003e humanity, you, myself, our potential. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI think it's time for us to flip the script on what's historically been our means of making sense, and instead open our aperture to enchantment and look to faith, belief, and dreams for our reality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLet's sing more than we might make sense, believe in more than the world can conclude, get more impressed with the wow instead of the how, let inspiration interrupt our appointments, dream our way to reality, serve some soul food to our hungry heads, put proof on the shelf for a season, and rhyme our way to reason. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eForget logic, certainty, owning, or making a start-up company of it; let's go beyond what we can merely imagine, and believe, in the poetry of life.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcademy Award-winning actor and #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author \u003cb\u003eMatthew McConaughey\u003c\/b\u003e is a husband and a father, an eternal optimist, a hopeful skeptic, and a man of faith who believes that we should all start sellin' Sunday morning like a Saturday night. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMcConaughey is a professor of practice at the University of Texas in Austin and co-owner of The Austin FC soccer club. 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