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― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

[text ID: And once again, only the Small Things were said. The Big Things lurked unsaid inside.]

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Louise Glück, from “Mutable Earth”, Poems 1962-2012

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Alain de Botton, Essays in Love [transcript in ALT]

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— Jennifer S. Cheng, from So We Must Meet Apart

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Zhang Jiuling, ed. by Jane Portal, from Chinese Love Poetry; “Looking at the moon and longing for a distant lover”

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Edna St. Vincent Millay, from “Afternoon on a Hill,” Collected Poems

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Mahmoud Darwish, from Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems; “The Flute Cried,”

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Little beaver taking a little sip

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i’m not sure i’m capable of being loved right now / i feel safe in my quiet way of living and telling my secrets to thread & paper / i don’t know what i’d say if you asked me to know myself / more

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Fernando Pessoa ― The Book of Disquiet