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Emily Dickinson, from her poem titled "1188," featured in The Emergency Poet

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Joy Sullivan, “Want", Instructions for Traveling West

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by lind4893

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to be seen without performing. to be heard without screaming. to be missed without disappearing. to be enough without proving it. to be held without falling apart. to be understood without explaining. to be wanted without conditions. to be. to be.

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the spirit is unwilling and the flesh it feels not so good also

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Lidia Yuknavitch, from Reading the Waves: A Memoir published in 2025

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Moon Landscape, 1893, Eugene Jettel

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Joy Sullivan, from “These Days People Are Really Selling Me On California”, Instructions for Traveling West

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— natalie díaz, from “american arithmetic”, postcolonial love poem (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

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"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

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“Where exactly do you put your hands on somebody who hurts everywhere?”

— Charles D’Ambrosio, The Dead Fish Museum: Stories

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—Fyodor Dostoevsky

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it was beautifully sunny and foggy this morning & i stopped to take a photo of this white egret

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Judith with the Head of Holofernes (detail) by Francesco Cairo.

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Eyes turn dry when there's no one to listen to the melancholic melodies of a tearing heart