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Sylvia Plath, from a journal entry featured in "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath,"

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Alexander Blok, from a poem titled "O Spring Without End," featured in The Twelve & Other Poems

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Franz Kafka, referring to Milena Jesenská in a letter to Max Brod featured in "Kafka: The Tremendous World I Have Inside my Head,"

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there is a space in my chest that pulses to the thought of your name

#prose #secrets #poetry #dark acamedia #muse

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— Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath

[text ID: Outside it is warm and blue and April.]

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"A Shirt Made of Fire", Vardges Petrosyan (translated by metamorphesque)

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“We try to hide our feelings but we forget our eyes speak.”

— Unknown

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Fady Joudah, from "Venus Cycle", part of 16 Love Poems by Writer's of Palestinian Heritage, pub. AAWW

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Julia de Burgos, tr. by Jack Agüeros, from Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos; "To Julia de Burgos"

[Text ID: "in all my poems I undress my heart."]

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“Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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– Rumi

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“She is a poem if you hold her right.”

– Jay Vespertine [Inspired from L. Zuniga]

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Lidia Yuknavitch, Dora: A Headcase

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But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

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Mahmoud Darwish, from Almond Blossoms and Beyond; "Tuesday, A Bright Day,"

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Feb 16, 2023 - Neset Arici.

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“Unseen, precious, secret things,”

— Georg Trakl, from Poems: Bilingual Edition; “Mary Magdalene: A Dialogue,” (via violentwavesofemotion)