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“—the water, which was warm, with a velvet softness about it, the phosphorescence gleaming like a shower of stars—” –Daphné du Maurier

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“I look at you and I dream of snow, I look at you and I await autumn.” –Adonis

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“Your beauty lives in mystic melodies,
And all the light about you breathes a song.” –Sara Teasdale

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“I burn, I freeze; I am never warm. I am rigid; I forgot softness because it did not serve me.” –Cathrynne M

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“Perhaps I wish to say: Look behind you. You are not alone. Don’t permit yourself to be ambushed. Watch out for the snakes. Get back on the horse that threw you.” –Margaret Atwood

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"i am crowded by your absence." –Mallory Pearson

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“My son, tell them
the body is a blade
that sharpens
by cutting.” –Ocean Vuong

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“I have died for the smallest things. / Nothing washes off.” –Angela Jackson

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"Do you think it’s possible that some people are born to give more love than they will ever get back in return?" –Tyler Knott Gregson

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“I store up nights against you. Heavy with shut-flower’s nightmares.” –Mina Loy

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“We are covered with stars.
Feel how light they are, our lives.” –Lisel Mueller

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“I wish I could say that the wolves don’t chase me anymore. I wish I could tell you that I became the sun like I always wanted. I’m not sure the sky even has room for me anymore.” –Allison Morgan

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“All I know is a door into the dark.” –Seamus Heaney

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“Reading a poem is like walking on silence—on volcanic silence. We feel the historical ground; the buried life of words.” –Geoffrey Hartman

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“I think too much of whys and wherefores; too much of myself.” –Virginia Woolf

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“Do not resent my growth…” –Anne Sexton

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"I fell toward mourning, as one who falls wounded by a sword." –Pablo Neruda

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“we sleep and are awake / we dream and are not here;” –H.D.

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“He turned on her cheek the heat of love, its horror, its cruelty, its unscrupulosity. It scorched her.” –Virginia Woolf

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“The true love is a burning stillness.” –Giuseppe Ungaretti