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“My tenderness remained, lonely, enormous, unnecessary.”— Zinaida Nikolaevna Gippius, from Selected Works; “Heavenly Words,”
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“Bewildered, burning with love, mad with sadness,”— Arthur Rimbaud, from Selected Poems & Prose; “The Impossible,”
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Gertrud Kolmar, from The Dark Soliloquy: The Selected Poems; “Sea-Monster,” (x)
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Gertrud Kolmar, from The Dark Soliloquy: The Selected Poems; “Sea-Monster,” (x)
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“My life is a wound with a happy childhood.”— Miguel Hernández, from Selected Poems; “The Wounded Man,”
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“Spring, I have a feeling, will be weighing heavy on me. As usual, I mean. I live the past all over again.”— Fyodor Dostoevsky, from a letter to Mikhail Dostoevsky, c. January 1847
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“You have a curious poetical defenceless look sometimes. At other times you just look intense and suspicious. You are adorable. I shall never get used to you.”— Iris Murdoch, from a letter to Wallace Robson written c. April 1952
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Kim Addonizio, from Tell Me: Poems; “Onset,” published c. September 2000 (x)
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“You are fortunate, you are fortunate to feel so much; I wish I could feel all that. You are at least alive to pain,”— Anaïs Nin, from The House of Incest: “Lies Created Solitude,”