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"solitude is not
a glass hedge
between life and love
but a mirror to see each other
with a heart amplified
by the time attended
in the house of enough"
...and 19 other truths about life from 20 years of The Marginalian, cast in clay and lichen themarginalian.org/2026/10/1…
"The use of music is to remind us how short a time we have a body."
Gorgeous read themarginalian.org/2022/10/1…
Reclaiming friendship – a visual taxonomy of platonic relationship types to counter the commodification of the word "friend" themarginalian.org/2016/08/1…
When your parents are dying – some of the simplest, most difficult and redemptive life-advice you'll ever receive themarginalian.org/2021/11/1…
What is your refugium? themarginalian.org/2026/10/2…
"People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them."
Bob Dylan on creativity: themarginalian.org/2026/10/2…
Elizabeth Bishop on why everyone should experience at least one long period of solitude in life themarginalian.org/2016/02/0…
Truth, fact, and the patterning of reality – Virginia Woolf on how we come to know the world themarginalian.org/2026/05/2…
The art of losing and the art of beckoning love back – the true story behind one of the greatest poems ever written themarginalian.org/2026/07/0…
The most important thing to remember about your mother themarginalian.org/2023/01/1…
The moving letter James Baldwin received from his childhood teacher and the peak of his fame and his heartbreak themarginalian.org/2026/08/2…
Shortly after he became the second-youngest laureate of the Nobel Prize, Albert Camus sent his childhood teacher this moving letter: themarginalian.org/2014/11/1…
“Love the earth and sun and the animals… re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul…”
Whitman's timeless advice for living a vibrant and rewarding life themarginalian.org/2026/10/2…
Hermann Hesse on solitude, the courage to be yourself, and how to find your destiny themarginalian.org/2019/01/1…
What it takes to be free themarginalian.org/2026/10/2…
20 favorite children's books from 20 years of The Marginalian themarginalian.org/2026/10/2…
“Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
The story behind one of the greatest poems ever written, and a rare recording of Dylan Thomas (born on this day in 1914) reading it: themarginalian.org/2024/01/1…
Sylvia Plath, who would have been 92 today, on living with the darkness and making art out of the barely bearable lightness of being themarginalian.org/2021/05/1…
Marcus Aurelius on the good luck of your bad luck – the Stoic strategy for turning suffering into strength themarginalian.org/2026/10/2…
On Sylvia Plath's birthday, Patti Smith reads her haunting portrait of depression themarginalian.org/2023/09/0…
