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Alice Notley

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ig credit: jafren_marcelo77

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A bookshop in Syria, 2006

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How is it possible to feel nostalgia for a world I never knew?

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please don’t spend your life convincing yourself that love or joy is reserved for the idealized version of you that only exists in the future

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Bishop's Palace & Gardens

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Natalie Díaz, from "American Arithmetic", Postcolonial Love Poem

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Ae Hee Lee, from "Anything You Can Find In The World You Can Find In A Body"

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Ilya Kaminsky, from “A City Like a Guillotine Shivers on Its Way to the Neck”, Deaf Republic

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About listening to the silence and learning to rest as the boundless space where life appears.

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Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

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“What we know: we are more than blood— we are more than our hunger”

— Mary Oliver, from “Blossom,” New and Selected Poems: Volume One

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— And so, I swim.

Regardless of my fate, and regardless of your hands, I go to where the light is shown.

I am not a refugee in these waters, I am not your refugee in these small dark sands; Let me open my eyes to what I have never seen.

Then, may the only light I ever lead myself with again be the light in my heart.

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𝔰𝔫𝔬𝔴 𝔞𝔱 𝔲𝔫𝔦

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Albert Letchford - Corner of Sir Richard Burton’s Study (1889)

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Locks of Virginia and Edgar Allan Poe’s hair

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felt.