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  This is the glimpse of the god you were never supposed to get. — Laura Kasischke  

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Clarice Lispector, from a letter in translation to Tania Kauffman, featured in All Letters of Clarice Lispector

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “Ghosts”

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Robert Desnos, from Essential Poems & Writings; "Ancient Clamor,"

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“When I kissed her I was so full of desire between one kiss and another that I felt I would lose her if we stopped kissing.”

— Mahmoud Darwish, tr. by Ibrahim Muhawi, from “Journal of an Ordinary Grief,”

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Wishing you a relaxed nervous system

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Ilya Kaminsky, from "While the Child Sleeps, Sonya Undresses", Deaf Republic

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Mary Oliver, from "Such Singing in the Wild Branches"

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Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

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Wildness Before Something Sublime Leila Chatti

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Timothy Liu, from a poem titled "I Want It to Be Winter All the Time," featured in Poetry (March 2026)

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Marisa Walz, from her book titled "Good Intentions," originally published in February 2026

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There was no light she loved more than the winter dusk.

Anne Michaels, Held