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“The stars smiled and the sea rose like the pulse of our hearts,”

— George Sarandaris, tr. by Kimon Friar, from Modern Greek Poetry; “I Have Seen Eternity In The Forest,”

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“Be calm—love me—today—yesterday—what tearful longings for you—you —you—my life—my all—”

— Ludwig van Beethoven, from a letter to Antonie Brentano wr. c. July 1812

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“I cannot help loving you more than is good for me;”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, from a letter to Charlotte von Stein c. 1784

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“I have always loved you and wanted for you those things you wanted deeply for yourself.”

— Audre Lorde, from a letter to Pat Parker featured in Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde & Pat Parker,

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Aleksandr Kochetkov, tr. by Lubov Yakovleva, from 20th Century Russian Poetry; “Ballad about a Smoke-Filled Railway Carriage,”

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Sami Baydar, tr. by Maggie Dubris, from “Virgin Rivers,” featured in Eda: An Anthology of Contemporary Turkish Poetry

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I. M. Panayotopoulos, tr. by Kimon Friar, from Modern Greek Poetry; “The Frozen Moon,”

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I. M. Panayotopoulos, tr. by Kimon Friar, from Modern Greek Poetry; “Helen,”

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“I am daydreaming as your hands caress me.”

— Sami Baydar, tr. by Maggie Dubris, from “Guillevic and the Leopard’s Bed,” featured in Eda: An Anthology of Contemporary Turkish Poetry

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Eila Kivikk’aho, tr. by Herbert Lomas, from Contemporary Finnish Poetry: “Drear Day,”

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Didem Madak, tr. by Maggie Dubris, from “Sir, I Want to Write Poems with Flowers,” featured in Eda: An Anthology of Contemporary Turkish Poetry

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“I feel as if the murmurs of the sea and the jungle ought to make the covering that has me enveloped in such darkness burst and thus allow me to blossom,”

— Hermann Hesse, from a letter to Ernst Kapff written c. April 1896 featured in “Soul of the Age: Selected Letters,”

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Garden vibes

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“Wanting you like I want you.”

— Federico García Lorca, tr. by Sarah Arvio, from Selections; “It’s True,”