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You know, we thank some people for merely living at the same time as we do I thank you for the fact that I met you, that I will remember you for all my life

Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

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Joy Sullivan, “Before”, Instructions for Traveling West

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social skills training, solmaz sharif

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— David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

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Mary Oliver, from “The Fourth Sign of the Zodiac”, Blue Horses

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Madeleine L'Engle

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New poem.

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Jihyun Yun, from Some Are Always Hungry; “Reversal”

[Text ID: “I so want to survive this. Please lead me whole into another season so I may dare begin again.”]

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Hari Alluri, from “Ancestral Memory”, After Kwame Dawes 

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To the Bone, Dorothy Allison 

[ID: That summer I did not go crazy / but I wore / very close / very close / to the bone.]

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June Gehringer, “EARTH IS AN ANAGRAM FOR HEART, U FUCKING IDIOTS”

[Text ID: “I don’t want to talk about it. / I want to lie in what little grass remains / and try to fit your heart inside of mine.”]

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Pablo Neruda, from “I Have Gone Marking”, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

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“But in the end, stories are about one person saying to another: This is the way it feels to me. Can you understand what I’m saying? Does it feel this way to you?”

— Kazuo Ishiguro, in his Nobel prize (2017) acceptance speech.  

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Amy Hempel, Cloudland

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