A Voice to Say How It Is

Olga Suvorova

A tough life needs a tough language — and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers — a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn’t a hiding place. It is a finding place.

~ Jeanette Winterson

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Charm” is a form of carmen, a song, adding the idea of voice and music, the “chant” in enchantment. Deep in enchantment is the experience of being lured into reverie, dreamland, by the musical charms of the enchanter.

~ Jon Wilson

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… The pain we feel comes from the cross-wise energies that keep curving back and canceling the wise self and the good words that wait to be expressed from within us. Persistent pain is usually the indication that we have become trapped in a life too small for our true nature. That is the usual human fate and the common predicament where the little-self obscures the greater nature behind it.

Until people realize what harms them and limits them from within, they are unlikely to call out for someone to help stop the pain. The remedy may be nearby, but until the pain becomes unbearable most remain caught in the agony of one form or another of self-inflicted wounds. As Rumi said, ‘The cure for the pain is in the pain.’”