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Louise Glück, Poems 1962-2012

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photo v.barikov

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Franz Kafka, from Letters to Felice

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Savannah Brown, from Closer Baby Closer; “Retroactive jealousy”

[Text ID: “Someday I’ll care for something / without wanting to close a door behind it.”]

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Kate Baer, from And Yet: Poems; “40”

[Text ID: “because sometimes it is easier to / write yourself out of the play / than to face another breakfast.”]

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Mahmoud Darwish, from "In the Presence of Absence," originally published in 2006

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“There’s a Japanese phrase that I like: koi no yokan. It doesn’t mean love at first sight. It’s closer to love at second sight. It’s the feeling when you meet someone that you’re going to fall in love with them. Maybe you don’t love them right away, but it’s inevitable that you will.”

Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

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Vincent van Gogh, from a letter to his brother Theo

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May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude

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Anne Sexton, from "A Self-Portrait in Letters"

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Franz Kafka, from “Diaries, 1910-1923”