— To a Young Poet, Mahmoud Darwish (translated by Fady Joudah)
[text ID: A poem in a difficult time / is beautiful flowers in a cemetery.]
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To a Young Poet, Mahmoud Darwish tr. Fady Joudah
[ Text ID: No advice in love. It's experience. ]
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"You won’t disappoint me,
if you distance yourself from others, and from me.
What doesn’t resemble me is more beautiful."
- To a Young Poet, Mahmoud Darwish.
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Gay people will be like “this is my comfort show!” And then show you the most emotionally devastating, stress-inducing, tragic piece of media you have ever witnessed
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Most experiences are unsayable; they become real to us in a space no word has entered.
Rainer Maria Rilke, from Letters to a Young Poet (tr. Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy)
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Grief is love’s souvenir. It’s our proof that we once loved. Grief is the receipt we wave in the air that says to the world: Look! Love was once mine. I love well. Here is my proof I paid the price.
— Glennon Doyle Melton, Love Warrior
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To a Young Poet, Mahmoud Darwish tr. Fady Joudah
[ Text ID: A poem in a difficult time / is beautiful flowers in a cemetery ]
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"You wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me"
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