The Soul in Depression
On Being with Krista Tippett
Is There a Paradox Behind Depression?
In depression, the days go numb. The wind sucks the world from your senses like withered leaves through the empty branches. But that's only afterward. In the fire, what you get is the fire. And this is a poem called questo muro. It is a phrase from a passage in dante's purgatory. Dante has been in the depths of depression, in the depths of the inferno, and he is now working his way out of it toward beatrice,. who is nor you could call her the soul or the anima. Be earth now, and even song. Be modest now, like a thing ripened until it is real, so that he who
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