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arcadecake
2 years ago
I need to see you. I need to feel you. I want the routine with you and I want the madness with you. I want all of it with you. Feed the cats and get on the damn plane. I want you here with me.

— Ernest Hemingway, from a letter to Martha Gellhorn.

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heart-of-poetry
1 year ago

this but like being in the closet. pain.

I was never safe, even when I was most hidden. Even when I was waiting.

— Louise Glück, from “Mutable Earth.”

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heart-of-poetry
1 year ago

I might be. Does a prisoner always know that they are imprisoned? What is a heartbeat to someone who feels that they are already dead?

Your heart is beating, isn't it? You're not in chains, are you?

— Mary Oliver, from “Felicity.”

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trbulntpiecses
2 years ago

this year all of me was murdered & yet I AM STILL HERE

Arabelle Sicardi, FromThe Year In Ugliness.

— Arabelle Sicardi, from “The Year in Ugliness.”

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trbulntpiecses
2 years ago
Paul Guest, From 1987.

— Paul Guest, from “1987.”

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