Rose Flint, ed. by Kate Rogers and Viki Holmes, from Not a Muse: The Inner Lives of Women: A World Poetry Anthology; "Black Wind"
[Text ID: “These are the nights when everything cages me: / your gentleness, our love, the spaces between us”]
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Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Violet Dickinson written in October 1904
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Thinking well is the greatest excellence and wisdom: to act and speak what is true, perceiving things according to their nature.
Heraclitus, Fragments, B112
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In the drowsy dark cave of the mind dreams build their nest with fragments dropped from day's caravan.
-- Rabindranath Tagore
(Siracusa, Italy)
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sheila heti pure colour
kofi
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Emily Dickinson, from The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
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Louise Glück, from "Persephone the Wanderer", Averno
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spring is coming. Spring IS COMING. You will stand on soft grass again, and feel the sun kiss your cheeks and shoulders. you will eat of the same berries as the animals returned from their hibernation. you will hear the air alive with your collective breathing.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gentle Spirit
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"Days will pass, and you'll abandon things you were addicted to, and leave someone, and cancel a dream, and finally, accept a reality."
– Nizar Qabbani
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[...] I’m so pathetically intense. I just can’t be any other way.
Sylvia Plath, The Letters of Sylvia Plath: Volume I: 1940 - 1956 — Edward Cohen, c. 11th September 1950
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I cannot assume you will understand me. It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear. Some story we must have. Stray words on crumpled paper. A weak signal into the outer space of each other.
Jeanette Winterson, from Gut Symmetries
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Rainer Maria Rilke, from a letter featured in Letters to Merline, 1919-1922
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lydia davis
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{Juansen Dizon, I Am The Architect of My Own Destruction page 24/ Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 6: 1955-1966/ Alice Hoffman, The Red Garden/ Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 5: 1947-1955/ Haruki Murakami: Norwegian Wood, page 276/ Michael Ondaatje/ Catherynne M. Valente, The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden/ D.H. Lawrence, from The Complete Works; The Plumbed Serpent/ Jean-Paul Sartre, from No Exit/ Alice Notley, from In The Pines: Poems; "In The Pines,"}
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