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anne sexton // richard siken// margaret atwood // virginia woolf

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ada limón

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Ada Limón, “The Good Fight” from Bright Dead Things

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Ada Limón, “State Bird” from Bright Dead Things

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This is what it was to be blessed—

Ada Limón, “The Wild Divine” from Bright Dead Things

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William Shakespeare, from Twelfth Night

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Ovid, tr. by A.D. Melville, from “The Creation,” Metamorphoses. 

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Often a lady is so fond of the beauty of another lady that she falls in love with her. I always want to be known to love you.

Amadis de Gaule, vol 21. 1540-1594.

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For a girl to love a girl, alas, what is that except to be in love with the moon and try to take it between your teeth?

Amadis de Gaule, vol 11. 1540-1594. 

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— Robert de Blois, ed. Paul Barrette, from Floris et Lyriopé. 1200s.

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Robert de Blois, ed. Paul Barrette, from Floris et Lyriopé. 1200s.

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Isotta Nogarola, tr. by Margaret L. King and Albert Ravil, Jr., from “Of the Equal or Unequal Sin of Adam and Eve,” Her Immaculate Hand.

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Doubt thou the stars are fire, / Doubt that the sun doth move, / Doubt truth to be a liar, / But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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Sir Philip Sidney, from The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia. 1590.

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William Shakespeare, from Hamlet.

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Ovid, tr. by A.D. Melville, from “Orpheus and Eurydice,” Metamorphoses.

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Presume not that I am the thing I was.

William Shakespeare, from 2 Henry IV.

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Geoffrey Chaucer, tr. by Candace Ward, from “The Knight’s Tale,” Canterbury Tales.