But We Had Music – The Marginalian
By Maria Popova How, knowing that even the universe is dying, do we bear our lives? Most readily, through friendship, […]
The Merger Self, the Seeker Self, and the Lifelong Challenge of Balancing Intimacy and Independence – The Marginalian
Each time I see a sparrow inside an airport, I am seized with tenderness for the bird, for living so
Inside the Creative Process of Beloved Artists, Poets, Musicians, and Other Makes of Meaning – The Marginalian
“The true artist,” Beethoven wrote in his touching letter of advice to a young girl aspiring to be an artist,
The Eclipse that Went Extinct – The Marginalian
What was it like for Martha, the endling of her species, to die alone at the Cincinnati Zoo that late-summer
How a Bronze Age Woman Became the World’s First Named Author and Used the Moon to Unify the World’s First Empire – The Marginalian
Days after I arrived in America as a lone teenager, the same age Mary Shelley was when she wrote Frankenstein,
Wendell Berry on the Collaborative Nature of the Universe and the Cure for Conflict – The Marginalian
“Every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you,” Walt Whitman wrote an epoch before the Nobel-winning physicist Erwin
Let the Last Thing Be Song – The Marginalian
A person is a note in the mouth of probability hungry for song, reverberating with echoes of the impossible. To
The Great Russian Poet Marina Tsvetaeva on Reclaiming the Divine – The Marginalian
“Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer,” Simone Weil wrote in her exquisite reckoning with
Great Writers, Artists, and Scientists on the Creative and Spiritual Rewards of Fertile Aloneness – The Marginalian
There is a silence at the center of each person — an untrammeled space where the inner voice grows free