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Langston Hughes
“Island

Wave of sorrow,
Do not drown me now:

I see the island
Still ahead somehow.

I see the island
And its sands are fair:

Wave of sorrow,
Take me there.”
Langston Hughes, Selected Poems

“There is a Portuguese word, saudade, that they say has no translation. It’s bigger than homesickness or missing someone. It’s a yearning that can be expressed in no other language. It is, as one Azorean friend puts it, “a strictly Portuguese word.”
Diana Marcum, The Tenth Island: Finding Joy, Beauty, and Unexpected Love in the Azores

Damian Murphy
“To tell the truth, I rather enjoy the mystery. I will let it remain impenetrable for the time being.”
Damian Murphy, Wound of Wounds

Glenn Haybittle
“Songs carry memories almost as reliably and poignantly as smells.”
Glenn Haybittle, The Tree House
tags: songs

Rainer Maria Rilke
“Moving Forward"

The deep parts of my life pour onward,
as if the river shores were opening out.
It seems that things are more like me now,
that I can see farther into paintings.
I feel closer to what language can’t reach.
With my sense, as with birds, I climb
into the windy heaven, out of the oak,
and in the ponds broken off from the sky
my feeling sinks, as if standing on fishes.”
Rainer Maria Rilke, Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke

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