Marie Howe — The Power of Words to Save Us | The On Being Project

The words and silences we live by. The rituals that sustain us. The poetry of ordinary time.

May 4, 2017 Ms. Marie Howe: Emily dinkinson wrote those amazing poems. “I felt a Funeral in my Brain, / And Mourners, to and fro / Kept treading — treading — till it seemed / That Sense was breaking through.” And my students were all like, “Huh?” I’m like, “Who here has had a panic attack?” And like half the room raised their hand. I’m like, “OK, now read it.” “And then a Plank in Reason, broke, / And I dropped down, and down / And hit a World with every plunge…” She wrote it. She domesticated it for us. She found the language for it. So when it happens to us, we’re not alone. It’s shared,…

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