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“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”
― Leonard Cohen

tags: ash, evidence, inspiration, life, poetry, writing

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“How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?”
― Anais Nin

tags: independence, women

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“Now I am more nearly a grown member of the human race..she thought she had never before had a chance to realize the strength human beings have, to endure;she loved and revered all those who had ever suffered, even those who had failed to endure”
― James Agee, A Death in the Family

tags: death-of-a-loved-one

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“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
― Anaïs Nin

tags: men, women

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“When I missed the physical body of my partner, I meditated on its parts, tossed by the waves, torn, dispersed, and deteriorated. When memories of our lives together became acute and intense, I breathed. I breathed through each wave of yearning, of regret, of guilt, of what-could-have-been. Every time I asked him, “Where are you?” A quiet voice immediately responded, “I am here. I have never left you.” I did not only lose a partner. I lost my childhood all over again. I lost my soul mate. I lost the accepting father and the gentle mother that he was to me. I lost the dream of a “normal life,” which I had tried so hard to achieve. Now I had to face my own mind.”
― Dang Nghiem, Healing: A Woman's Journey from Doctor to Nun

tags: buddhism, loss, love

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