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"I still feel that poetry is not medicine — it's an X-ray. It helps you see the wound and understand it. We all feel alienated because of this continuous violence in the world. We feel alone, but we feel also together. So we resort to poetry as a possibility for survival. However, to say I survived is not so final as to say, for example, I'm alive. We wake up to find that the war survived with us."
Dunya Mikhail, Revisiting Iraq Through The Eyes Of An Exiled Poet
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16 April, 1939 Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov
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quick linguistic history lesson. the term “woke” originates from african american communities to describe being “awake and aware” of the current sociopolitical climate. this term has been used since at least the 1930s. it wasnt until 2014 during the ferguson protests that the term entered the wider vernacular. mainly as a result of black twitter. and as is common with many things coined by the black community. it was repeated and commercialized to death to the point where now most people only using it mockingly. including people on the left. the point is. “woke” is not a bad word. the alt right wants it to be one.
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Courtney Marie Andrews, from Old Monarch: Poems; “Watercolor”
[Text ID: “If I were a paint, I’d be a watercolor. / Indecisive and hard to control, / no one wants to handle watercolors / unless they are brave, patient, or mad.”]
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Liang Fu (Chinese, 1993) - Reflections of Nothing (2024)
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Carmen Laforet, from Nada
Text ID: My chest was heavy with a thousand daydreams and memories.
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Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
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To you I belong, however time may wear me away.
Rainer Maria Rilke, "You, You Only, Exist"
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— Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
[text ID: It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of.]
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I really like the word “smitten”. because at first glance you just think of sappy lovey-dovey stuff but also you have to remember this is a word that’s born of the word “smite.” a devastating word. a word that, summarized, means stricken. smitten means stricken as well — struck with devastating affection.
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Vardges Petrosyan, Years Lived and Unlived (translated by metamorphesque)
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九水巷 aka 999999999sx aka Jiushui Xiang (Chinese) - 小湖 (Small Lake), Digital Art
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