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the love is ongoing!! happy new year friends

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“Rise up, then. Mend your ways, start seeing what you are instead of calculating what you should become.”

— Franz Kafka, from a diary entry c. August 1916, featured in “Diaries,”

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“I’m incurable”; Phantom Thread (2017)

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richard siken, clementine von radics

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LOVE AS VIOLENCE VS LOVE AS SOFTNESS

Ada Limon, The Good Fight // Mary Oliver, West Wind // Danez Smith, Bare // Sappho, Fragment 58.25-26 // Mitski, I Don’t Smoke // Ashe Vernon // Hozier, Cherry Wine // Shauna Barbosa, GPS // Richard Siken, Little Beast // Chen Chen, Summer [The sunflowers fall…] // Warsan Shire // Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

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I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.

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Audre Lorde, from “A Litany for Survival”, The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

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THIS FLAMENCO SINGER GETS IT

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Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh

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— Elena Ferrante, from “The Days of Abandonment.”

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Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

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— Marilyn Hacker, from “Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons.”

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Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby

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Linda Pastan, from The Five Stages of Grief: Poems; "The Mirror"

[Text ID: “Ask nature what love is. / Silence is answer enough.”]

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You can suffer nostalgia in the presence of beloved if you glimpse a future where beloved is no more

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“I can’t hold enough of you in my hands.”

— Franz Kafka; Letters to Milena