Kindly recorded for Brain Pickings. Poem text and context: https://www.brainpickings.org/2021/07/26/david-whyte-the-truelove

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David Whyte reads his poem "The Truelove"

Context and illustrations: https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/11/10/love-at-first-sight-szymborska-queirazza/

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"Love at First Sight" by Wisława Szymborska (read by Maria Popova)

Poem text and context: https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/12/25/to-a-wreath-of-snow-patti-smith-emily-bronte

"To a Wreath of Snow": Patti Smith Reads Emily Brontë

Poem text and context: https://www.themarginalian.org/2023/01/11/let-this-darkness-be-a-bell-tower-rilke

Music: Bach Cello Suite No. 5 in C Minor, performed by Colin Carr

Art: Arthur Rackham, 1926

"Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower" by Rainer Maria Rilke (read by Maria Popova)

Sylvia Plath on poetry – background and full text here: http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/10/27/sylvia-plath-reads-the-disquieting-muses-bbc/

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Sylvia Plath on poetry

Background, context, and poem text: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/05/28/keeping-quiet-sylvia-boorstein-reads-pablo-neruda

Excerpted from https://soundcloud.com/onbeing/what-we-nurture-with-sylvia

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Sylvia Boorstein reads "Keeping Quiet" by Pablo Neruda

Bulgarian folk from the Golden Record that sailed into the cosmos aboard NASA's Voyager mission in 1977. More about this song: https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/12/21/reflection/

More about the Golden Record project: https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/02/10/murmurs-of-earth-sagan-golden-record/

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Music from the Golden Record: "Izlel ye Delyo Haydutin" by Valya Balkanska, Bulgaria

Poem text and context: https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/04/02/meryl-streep-morning-song-sylvia-plath/

Recorded at Poetry & the Creative Mind 2014, hosted by The Academy of American Poets.

Meryl Streep reads "Morning Song" by Sylvia Plath

Kindly recorded by the author for Brain Pickings. Poem text and context:  https://www.brainpickings.org/2020/01/08/what-you-need-to-be-warm-neil-gaiman

Neil Gaiman reads "What You Need to Be Warm"

From a BBC radio segment broadcast on April 29th, 1937. Background and transcript:http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/04/29/craftsmanship-virginia-woolf-speaks-1937/ 

On Craftsmanship: The only surviving recording of Virginia Woolf's voice

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