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Savannah Brown, from a poem titled "Unmute me unmute me unmute me!," featured in Closer Baby Closer: Poems

Chen Kehua , from a poem titled "Why Are There Still Love Poems?," featured in Modern Chinese Poetry: An Anthology

Sylvia Plath, from a letter featured in The Letters of Sylvia Plath Vol. 1: 1940-1956

Pablo Neruda, from a poem titled "Our Child," featured in Love Poems: from Spain & Spanish America

Kōtarō Takamura, translated by Hiroaki Sato, from Chieko and Other Poems; "Fountain of Mankind,"

Rainer Maria Rilke, from a letter featured in Letters to Merline, 1919-1922

Albert Camus, from The Selected Works of Albert Camus; “The Plague,” published c. 1947

Gabriela Mistral, from a poem titled "The Teacher's Prayer," featured in The Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral

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Joy Sullivan, “My Mother Says Kissing a Man Without a Mustache Is Like Eating Eggs Without Salt”, Instructions for Traveling West

"I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot explain it to myself."

- Franz Kafka

kate elizabeth russell, my dark vanessa.

Gabriela Mistral, tr. by Velma García-Gorena, from Gabriela Mistral’s Letters to Doris Dana; “December 28, 1949”

[Text ID: “I hope for love, because I give it.”]

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