Notices by Maria Popova (mariapopova@indieweb.social), page 2

“Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never ­being satisfied.”

On Zadie Smith's birthday, her 10 timeless rules of writing (which apply to all creative work) https://t.co/GWLpKtfaeK

Starlings and the magic of murmurations – a stunning watercolor celebration of one of Earth's living wonders https://t.co/qqcfc5Lvnb

“To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing.”

Picasso, born on this day in 1881, on creativity https://t.co/E2YlabAuAQ

"Progress is never permanent, will always be threatened, must be redoubled, restated and reimagined if it is to survive."

On Zadie Smith's birthday, her ever-timely masterpiece on optimism and despair https://t.co/9hOCV9Nto4

The only valiant way to complain is to create – Blake and the stubborn courage of the unexampled: https://t.co/593bWdASsz

How do you know that the one is the one, and is there even a one? Nobel laureate Wisława Szymborska’s poem “Love at First Sight,” illustrated https://t.co/LHNOKYzfT6

Bruce Springsteen on surviving depression and his strategy for warding off the visitations of the darkness https://t.co/Td2mR0BwZq

Faster than Light – Marilyn Nelson reads her exquisite poem about the purpose of life and how our impermanence both frustrates and fuels our creative drive https://t.co/WB8ANIDglg

Born 100 years ago today, Denise Levertov wrote what remains the finest poem ever written about the relationship between human nature and the rest of nature https://t.co/3aOuKu50Le

A Room of One's Own was published 96 years ago today, forever changing women's place in creative culture. Here is Virginia Woolf on the relationship between loneliness and creativity: https://t.co/TqYaooPCMG

Between restlessness and rapture – wonderful read on autumn and the sensual urgency of being alive https://t.co/j4f5MG8IJn

A Room of One's Own was published on this day in 1927. In it, Virginia Woolf, a century ahead of her time, wrote beautifully about why the most creative mind is the nonbinary mind: https://t.co/rAFh9fHwgQ

Turning loneliness and loss into wonder – how the Victorian visionary Marianne North, born on this day in 1830, revolutionized art and science with her botanical illustrations, for which she traveled to the ends of the world and nearly lost her life https://t.co/n9BZVDDwbC

"17. Everything is eventually recompensed, every effort of the heart eventually requited, though not always in the form you imagined or hoped for."

...and 16 more life-learnings from my years of writing The Marginalian as a log of the search for meaning https://t.co/Vlsakyvmt1

Joy is not a thing of the will, not subject to control and conquest. It comes when we least expect it, like a murmuration of starlings across the evening sky. It stays for as long as we are able to stay openhearted to the tender transience of life.
On joy: https://t.co/MnQPzK62AW

“Life is wasted when we make it more terrifying, precisely because it is so easy to do so.”

Enchantment and the courage of joy – René Magritte on the antidote to the banality of pessimism https://t.co/awwawnxzo2

Such a lovely reminder that music is like humor, like love: Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Tormé "explain" what jazz is https://t.co/ecu5BwYUsI

“I didn’t graduate from college, which isn’t necessary to be a poet. It is only necessary to be interested in humans and to be in touch with yourself as a human.”

How to be a living poem — Lucille Clifton on the healing power of connection https://t.co/ai38p0cRFJ

“I didn’t graduate from college, which isn’t necessary to be a poet. It is only necessary to be interested in humans and to be in touch with yourself as a human.”

How to be a living poem — Lucille Clifton on the healing power of connection https://t.co/GsFwVhy8VP

"I suspect that the mind, like the feet, works at about three miles an hour. If this is so, then modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought, or thoughtfulness."

Rebecca Solnit's wonderful manifesto for wanderlust https://t.co/6kch27v6yd