This week's highlightable delights, in one place: On love and desire, The Universe in Verse book, inside the creative process of beloved artists mailchi.mp/themarginalian…

Book of Questions – Pablo Neruda's poetic reckonings with the magic and mystery of life, illustrated themarginalian.org/2022/08/26/boo…

'It is said that the forest has a certain limit if you look straight ahead, but the sides are boundless.'

A stunning illustrated celebration of the wilderness and the human role in nature not as conqueror but as humble witness themarginalian.org/2018/10/09/the…

“After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”

Aldous Huxley on the power of music: themarginalian.org/2016/04/05/ald…

“It is very important to be in love with life… Life is very fragile and always elusive. As soon as we think we ‘understand,’ there is another mystery.”

Keith Haring would have been 66 today themarginalian.org/2020/09/11/kei…

Today I watched the counter pass 3,000 bicycles on the Manhattan bridge. (I was one of them.) A little more than a century ago, that was unthinkable. Here is a superb 1896 manifesto for the bicycle as a portal to joy and empowerment, especially for women themarginalian.org/2020/04/08/bic…

We need science to help us meet reality on its own terms, and we need poetry to help us broaden and deepen the terms on which we meet ourselves and each other.

The #UniverseInVerse is now a book! themarginalian.org/2024/05/01/the…

The Work of Art — inside the creative process of some of the most beloved artists of our time: poets, painters, novelists, musicians, filmmakers, playwrights, architects, chefs, and other makers of meaning and beauty themarginalian.org/2024/05/01/the…

David Bowie on creativity and his advice to artists themarginalian.org/2022/11/24/dav…

Wonder, hungry wolves, and the whimsy of resilience – Arthur Rackham's hauntingly beautiful century-old illustrations for Irish fairy tales themarginalian.org/2022/03/19/art…

Anna Deavere Smith on discipline and how to stop letting others define you themarginalian.org/2014/06/16/ann…

Margaret Atwood on marriage, in a poem themarginalian.org/2019/12/09/mar…

In this peak season for bird migration, the majesty and mystery of nocturnal flight turned into a poem turned into a symphony themarginalian.org/2023/11/18/han…

On this day in 1921, 'the big apple' became NYC's moniker. Here is the story of its origin, unknown even to most native New Yorkers themarginalian.org/2021/05/02/nyc…

Chekhov's 6 tenets of a great story (which also make for excellent tenets for living) themarginalian.org/2018/10/03/che…

'The true artist is not proud... Though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.'

Beethoven's letter of advice to a young girl who wanted to become an artist themarginalian.org/2017/05/18/bee…

“Anyone with any degree of mental toughness ought to be able to exist without the things they like most for a few months at least.”

Georgia O'Keeffe on art, life, and setting priorities themarginalian.org/2014/09/17/geo…

“No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge.”

Jack Kerouac's 30 tenets of writing and life themarginalian.org/2012/03/22/jac…

Ursula K. Le Guin on time, the measure of loyalty, and what responsibility really means themarginalian.org/2018/10/10/urs…

Ecological philosopher and Rilke translator Joanna Macy, who turns 95 today, on mortality and how to be more alive each day themarginalian.org/2014/12/10/joa…