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the way i can romanticise a single moment into a lifetime of yearning

and the way your body becomes fluent only in waiting and the way the wanting bleeds into every gesture, no matter how small. and the way you learn to carry it so quietly no one notices until they touch you.

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“You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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— Louise Glück, from “The Untrustworthy Speaker.”

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Julia de Burgos, tr. by Jack Agüeros, from Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos; "Pentachrome"

[Text ID: "My longings burn me"]

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Sylvia Plath, from a journal entry featured in "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath,"

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Franz Kafka, from a diary entry featured in "The Diaries of Franz Kafka,"

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fatima aamer bilal, excerpt from moony moonless sky’s ‘we were put on this earth desperate, hungry and willing.’

[text id: in a sharp set of knives, i looked for a hand to hold. / i could not stop myself from needing to belong somewhere, even if that somewhere was a burial ground.]

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Julia de Burgos, tr. by Jack Agüeros, from Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos; "Moments"

[Text ID: “Me, inside myself, / always waiting for something / that my mind can’t define.”]

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Rati Saxena, ed. by Kate Rogers and Viki Holmes, from Not a Muse: The Inner Lives of Women: A World Poetry Anthology; "Mountain nights"

[Text ID: “Last night / there was a dream / And / In the dream? You / You / You / And / Only you”]

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“No one ever comes back from the dead, no one ever enters the world without weeping; no one is asked when he wishes to enter life, no one is asked when he wishes to leave.”

— Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or