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“I can only move myself into the distance; my mother can never become for me, as I can for myself, a winged art object flying serenely through the air. She refuses to be isolated and remains unfathomable; my sentences crash in the darkness and lie scattered on the paper.”
― Peter Handke, A Sorrow Beyond Dreams

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“What am I to myself
that must be remembered,
insisted upon
so often?”
― Robert Creeley, Selected Poems of Robert Creeley

tags: the-rain

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“You meant more than life to me. I lived through
you not knowing, not knowing I was living.”
― John Ashbery, Where Shall I Wander

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“The purpose of poetry is to return that which is familiar to its original strangeness.”
― Charles Simic

tags: poetry, strangeness, wonder, writing

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“I thought I'd die of it, but I didn't die. You can learn to eat violence. There is pleasure in not resisting. I dedicated myself to teaching my bully just how much a person can consume.”
― Sarah Manguso, Very Cold People

tags: bullying, endurance

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