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Eurydice, Sarah Ruhl

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“He kisses me as if I were a princess - his princess.”

— Anais Nin, January 1922

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ask me how I fell asleep

I’ll tell you that I fell asleep to the image of your hands

around my waist and my head on your chest

sometimes I hug my pillow wishing it was you

then I slowly drift away

off into the future that could’ve been ours

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Li Qingzhao, tr. by Jiaosheng Wang, from Complete Poems; "Tune: The Pertridge Sky,"

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my sexual fantasy is for someone to look at me and feel that with me they have everything they want

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“My poems bloom naked as roses.”

— Adonis, from ‘Elegy for the Time at Hand’, The Pages of Day and Night (trans. Samuel Hazo)

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I don’t feel stupid because I know what my heart does, it loves. It’ll love you completely and that love will suffocate you in the end. so please when I say to tread lightly I mean it. don’t say things I won’t be able to forget.

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he said, “I like your eyes because they remind me of coffee” and I knew how much he liked his coffee

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dream about me

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When we weren't together we were looking for each other. It isn't strange that you think love, which is so much like a season, will never end; because sometimes you think a season will never end—no matter that you tell yourself you know it will.

– John Crowley, Engine Summer

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I envy that tattoo on you, the one that’s perhaps more permanent in your life than I’ll ever be, more than you could ever think

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I’m in love

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this ribbon tattoo i am in love