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“Under the gaze of Clarice Lispector, every event hatches; the ordinary opens up and shows its treasure, which is, precisely, ordinary. And suddenly like a storm — of wind, of gunfire, of teeth: life arrives.”
— Hélène Cixous, “Coming to Writing” and Other Essays
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Joy Sullivan, "State of Emergency", Instructions for Traveling West
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June 14, 1926 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 3]
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heavenspeared, from "The starving moon dims and dies"
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Now it is high summer: the solstice: longed-for, possessed, luxurious, and sad.
Jane Kenyon, Camp evergreen
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Dorianne Laux, from a poem featured in Only As The Day is Long: New and Selected Poems
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