Immortality in Passing: Poet Lisel Mueller, Who Lived to 96, on What Gives Meaning to Our Ephemeral Lives

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/01/27/immortality-in-passing-lisel-mueller/

JOY
by Lisel Mueller, read by Nick Cave

“Don’t cry, it’s only music,”
someone’s voice is saying.
“No one you love is dying.”

Recorded for The #Marginalian. Poem text and context: https://www.themarginalian.org/2024/0...

Words: #LiselMueller
Voice: #NickCave
Art: Dorothy Lathrop
Music: Claude #Debussy
#mariapopova

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzLp7Va4MOQ

Today's poem:

Monet Refuses the Operation
- by Lisel Mueller

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/734864281133367296/monet-refuses-the-operation?source=share

#ClaudeMonet #impressionist #painter #vision #eyesight #reality #philosophy #poetry #inspiration #LiselMueller