{"id":3817,"date":"2023-08-20T21:39:58","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T01:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/spell-against-indifference-the-marginalian\/"},"modified":"2023-08-20T21:39:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T01:39:58","slug":"spell-against-indifference-the-marginalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/spell-against-indifference-the-marginalian\/","title":{"rendered":"Spell Against Indifference \u2013 The Marginalian"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Maria Popova<\/h3>\n
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I was a latecomer to poetry \u2014 an art form I did not understand and, as we tend to do with what we do not understand, discounted. But under its slow seduction, I came to see how it shines a sidewise gleam on the invisible and unnameable regions of being where the truest truths dwell, the most difficult and the most beautiful; how it sneaks in through the backdoor of consciousness to reveal us more fully to ourselves; how it gives us an instrument for paying attention, which is how we learn to love the world more.<\/p>\n

When I first began writing poetry, it was privately, almost<\/a> secretly, certainly shyly. But I have come to see that while poetry may be a language for the silent places in us, it is also a language of connection \u2014 a way of finding the intimate in the universal and the universal in the intimate \u2014 and so it is meant to be shared. <\/p>\n

In that spirit, and with immense gratitude to my poetry teachers \u2014 Marie Howe<\/a> and Ellen Bass<\/a> \u2014 here is a poem.<\/p>\n