Maria Popova has been picking inspiration for us for fifteen years. Her Brainpickings is, to me, one of the best things on the internet. I don't read every single one, but I love that they are there, a library of reflections on books and art and science.
This morning I was following the bread crumbs trail of the site, starting with Nina Simone and then meandering into a poet I'd never met before (Lisel Mueller) writing about life and death and immortality. I was so moved by the reading of this poem that I wanted to share it with you all. "What exists, exists so that it can be lost and become precious."
I want to read more of the poems of this writer--who lived to be 96 and writes, as many poets do, about finding meaning in the ephemeral lives we get to live.
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