Walt Whitman, “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking”, Leaves of Grass
[Text ID: “O madly the sea pushes upon the land,
With love, with love.”]
Eavan Boland, “A Woman Painted on a Leaf”
[Text ID: “I want a poem
I can grow old in. I want a poem I can die in.”]
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Ilya Kaminsky, “A City Like a Guillotine Shivers on Its Way to the Neck”, Deaf Republic
[Text ID: “At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this?
And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?”]
“One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man. For prose this home is a vast territory, a country which it crosses through a network of tracks, paths, highways; for poetry this home is concentrated on a single center, a single voice, and this voice is simultaneously that of an announcement and a response to it.”
John Berger, And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos
“But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing.”— Albert Camus, from The Fall
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Candice Ghai “Ghost in the Mirror”
“loneliness slides itself along our necks like a crucifix and we gasp for anything familiar,”— The Crown Ain’t Worth Much: COLLEGE AVENUE, HALLOWEEN, 2002 by Hanif Abdurraqib
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