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Orientalism

by Edward W. Said

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oliver’s Quotes

“You remember too much,
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that? And I said,
Where can I put it down?”
― Anne Carson, Glass, Irony and God

tags: burdens, memory, poems, poetry, remembering

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“Home is the first grave.”
― Fatimah Asghar

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“Why, you will go home and then you will find that home is not home any more. Then you will really be in trouble. As long as you stay here, you can always think: One day I will go home.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room

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“when I imagine myself

I am always leaving

I couldn’t draw my own face if god asked”
― Andrés Cerpa

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“How many poems must you write to convince yourself you have a family? Everyone leaves and you end up the stranger.”
― Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us

tags: family, longing, poetry, sadness

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