A voice echoing the poem "I am not I": Marguerite Porete


It still surprises me each time I discover distant voices echoing each other. There is something mysterious and comforting at the same time in finding connections and resonances between a 20th century poet, and a 12th century mystic:

"Such a Soul often hears  what she hears not,
and often sees what she sees not,
and so often she is there where she is not,
and so often she feels what she feels not."

Marguerite Porete (1250-1310)
She was burned by the Inquisition in France.




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