A Tender Painted Lexicon of Consolation and Connection – The Marginalian
“To be a Flower is profound Responsibility,” Emily Dickinson wrote. From the moment she pressed the first wildflower into her […]
“To be a Flower is profound Responsibility,” Emily Dickinson wrote. From the moment she pressed the first wildflower into her […]
“Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty,” Junichiro Tanizaki wrote in the 1933 Japanese classic In Praise
“I hear bravuras of birds… I hear the sound I love, the sound of the human voice,” Walt Whitman exulted
“In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses
People pass through our lives and change us, tilting our orbit with their own. Sometimes, if the common gravitational center
“Words belong to each other,” Virginia Woolf rasped in the only surviving recording of her voice — a love letter
One of the things no one tells us as we grow up is that we will be living in a
By Maria Popova Because I read for the same reason I write — to fathom my life and deepen my