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“I am bent over your image like the woman I saw this afternoon washing her clothes in the river. On my knees for hours, hunched over the black river of your absence.”

— Dulce María Loynaz, from “LVIII,”Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems (Archipelago, 2016)

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“At night I bewail the insomnia of absence. This is my cordial song.”

— Amir Khusrau, from “Ghazal 155,” In the Bazaar of Love: The Selected Poetry of Amir Khusrau (Penguin Global, 2012)

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“Absence, the highest form of presence.”

— James Joyce

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“Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.”

— W.S. Merwin, from “Separation,” The Moving Target (Macmillan Pub Co, 1963)

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“Love who you love while you have them. That’s all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you’ll never run out.”

— Ann Brashares (via quotemadness)

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“I bear equally with you the black permanent separation. Why are you crying? Rather give me your hand, promise to come again in a dream. You and I are a mountain of grief. You and I will never meet on this earth. If only you could send me at midnight a greeting through the stars.”

— Anna Akhmatova, quoted in John Berger’s “The Hour of Poetry,” John Berger: Selected Essays, ed. Geoff Dyer (Pantheon Books, 2001)

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“Sometimes, when I’m careless, I think survival is easy: you just keep moving forward with what you have, or what’s left of what you were given, until something changes—or you realize, at last, that you can change without disappearing, that all you had to do was wait until the storm passes you over and you find that—yes—your name is still attached to a living thing.”

— Ocean Vuong, from On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (Penguin Press, 2019)

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“Days I feel like a human being, while other days I feel more like a sound. I touch the world not as myself but as an echo of who I was.”

— Ocean Vuong, from On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (Penguin, 2019)

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the real question is how the fuck did persephone only manage to eat 6 pomegranate seeds. theyre like the fucking cocaine of fruit you cant eat just 6 singular seeds you have to pop handfuls upon handfuls into ur mouth at rapid speeds and then get sad cause you spent half an hour getting them out of the pomegranate and ate all of them in 5 minutes