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I would pluck his death’s flower and eat it

— Ghassan Zaqtan (tr. Fady Joudah)

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"My soul

shattered with the strain

of trying to belong to earth—"

Louise Glück, "Persephone the Wanderer," Averno

Louise Glück, “Snowdrops”

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Mitski, Buffalo Replaced.

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i will look like i have died o so many times already

— Gboyega Odubanjo

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Then the huge machinery of the earth began to work for his life

— Sharon Olds

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who did i kill for this silk?

— Cole Swensen

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My heart is in my leg. This explains everything.

— Shannon Burns

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Look at all that wasted space.

— Ron Koertge

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give us a long winter and quiet music

— Adam Zagajewski

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grief-seared, they could not savor it.

— William Bronk

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Pain is a flower

—Robert Creeley

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If you’ve managed to do one good thing, the ocean doesn’t care.

—Ellen Bass

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Wherever I am I am what is missing.

—Mark Strand

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and the huge hallway within…

— Michael Burkard