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Mahmoud Darwish, Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 (trans. Ibrahim Muhawi) // John Keats, "Ode on Indolence" // Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart // Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk // Misun Holdorf // Dear Icarus—Anna Miriam Brown // Louise Erdrich // Frank Bidart, "Guilty of Dust" // Mary Oliver, "Honey Locust" // Kahlil Gibran, "Defeat" // Mary Oliver, That Sweet Fruit John Clare // Brian Jekel // Katherine Mansfield, The Diaries of Katherine Mansfield // see 6 // Mary Oliver, Thirst // Yves Olade, Bloodsport // Marina Tsvetaeva, Poems for Akhmatova (trans. Michael R. Burch) // Galileo Chini, Icarus // Victoria Chang, The Trees Witness Everything

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She wore blue. He wore blue.

She changed to black. So did he.

The sky blushed. The sea was a terrific flirt.

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"We don't hurt girls there."

"Everwherw in the world they hurt girls."

- Unknown

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“His arm fell lifelessly to his side. He looked away and said, “Oliver, I don’t know what’s wrong with me. I want to hurt the whole world.” ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

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They call us dreamers but we're the ones that don't sleep.

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I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it.

- Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks ( 1947-1964

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"Never regret thy fall,

O Icarus of the fearless flight

For the greatest tragedy of them all

Is never to feel the burning light."

- Oscar Wilde

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"'I loved a wolf', says the little heroine ..... And in the end, of course, it kills her, or else it's she who kills herself for it. As soon as one speaks of loving, it is there."

- Hélène Cixous // Sigmata: Love the wolf

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"You were destined for the glory,

the honor and the fame.

I was destined for the bullet,

to be the gun with no name."

Fate's been playing the long game on us , darling // ddaredevil

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Lifedance

The area dividing the brain and the soul

is affected in many ways by

experience-

some lose all mind and become soul : insane

some lose all soul and become mind : intellectual

some lose both and become : accepted

- Charles Bukowski

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"Come away, O human child : To the waters and the wild

with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full

of weeping than you can understand."

- William Butler Yeast

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You have my permission not to love me.

I am a cathedral of dead bolts

& I'd rather burn myself down

Than change the locks.

- Rachel McKibbens, "letter from my brainto my heart"

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"You are a church of broken glass and hallelujahs.

You are haunted like every other holy thing.

What tried to destroy you didn't have the strength.

Still you stand.

Sturdy and smelling if smoke."

- Little Bird, Clementine von Radics

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A Betrayal

I cannot undo what I have done;

I can't unsing a song that's sung.

And the saddest thing about my regret-

I can't forgive me and you can't forget.

- Lang Leav

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