Maria Popova
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931 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 22 Jun
Maria Popova’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I think the more sensitive a person, the more absorbent they are of the tone and way of seeing and way of worlding that another mind has, right?
And so for me, spending seven years with Mary Shelley and Whitman,
They taught me how to see.
They taught me how to feel.
Of course, of course.
And then I miss them.
I mean, the most tragic thing about these books for me is that when I'm done writing them, I mean, I've been living with these people daily, right?
When I'm done writing them, I feel this tremendous absence and grief.
It's like a real person left.
Well, you know, it's interesting because that's a bit of a chicken and egg or a self-selection issue because, I mean, you do, you started Design Matters in order to learn how creative people orchestrate and govern their lives, right?
So there is a kind of hunger to be modeled different ways of seeing, different ways of being, to be inspired.
And so, of course, that will feed you even more than the conversation.
Yeah.
But the comforting thing about the dead, who are my subject, yours is the living or not my forte.
The comforting, greatly comforting thing about the dead is that they can choose your dead by virtue of their lives being foreclosed, meaning they can't surprise you.
They can't suddenly turn out to be total assholes, you know.
With sufficient information and biographical records, we have a pretty good sense of who someone was in their life, in the world.
And something about the finality of their life, the notion that you can have it down.
I mean, you can never, of course, understand what it's like to be anyone else.
It's so misleading.
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