Maria Popova
speaker
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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there is no one to pick up the pieces because there are no pieces only the firm fastidious hand of time to slide it back into place and after all who can fault the wayward compass
when the magnetic North Pole is in constant motion, drifting by 50 kilometers a year and reversing itself altogether every few centuries, while every 26,000 years a different North Star comes to shine its guiding light above all the confusion.
We are here to lose our way.
My prose tends to be quite analytical, quite focused on thinking through something.
Not always, but fundamentally it is a kind of thought process.
And the poetry is more about feelings.
befriending feeling.
Oh, I don't.
In fact, I plagiarize my poems all the time and put them into paragraphs of prose.
And in fact, my wonderful editor, Eric, noted, so the prelude of my book, Traversal, both of the big books have a prelude, a short chapter, zero in the beginning, that kind of
in a very abstract way, makes a promise of what's to come.
But it's not biographical, informational, any of that.
It's very kind of abstract.
And so I had poached a poem that I had written in a workshop with Marie Howe and Ellen Bass and literally erased the line breaks and put it as a paragraph in the prelude.
And Eric in the editing manuscript had written in the margin, you know, this could be a poem.
Oh, not at all.
I thought no one would come.
I just wanted to do it.
I think part of it is, you know, the universe was born in the wake of the first Trump election.
And many factors were present.
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