Adonis, from Selected Poems; “To a Soothsayer” (tr. Khaled Mattawa)
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has anyone got a light?
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― Salma Deera, Letters From Medea
[text ID: The centre of every poem is this: / I have loved you. / I have had to deal with that.]
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– Susan Sontag
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Winter, 1931-1932
The diary of Anaïs Nin 1903-1977
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“These are the days that must happen to you.”
— Walt Whitman
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Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young, Mary Schmich [transcript in ALT]
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𝙼𝚒𝚔𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚕 𝙱𝚞𝚕𝚐𝚊𝚔𝚘𝚟, 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙼𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚊 (𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟾-𝟷𝟿𝟺𝟶)
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Natalie Díaz, from "American Arithmetic", Postcolonial Love Poem
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Anne Sexton, from Love Poems; “For My Lover, Returning to His Wife,”
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—On Love, Marina Tsvetaeva
[text ID: I just want a humble, murderously simple thing: that a person be glad when I walk into the room.]
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Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Sarah Tuckerman (October 1885)
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—The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
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― Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
[text ID: To love someone is firstly to confess: I'm prepared to be devastated by you.]
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