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“Please remember me, because I remember you— always...”

Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Mary Bowles

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“If there is any substitute for love, it is memory.”

Joseph Brodsky, Hope Against Hope: A Memoir

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“Roses, moonshine and nothingness,”

Anna de Noailles, from Poems; "Tale of Hearts"

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“I won't stay there's absurdity in me there's chaos.”

Ghassan Zaqtan, tr. by Fady Joudah, from The Silence That Remains: Selected Poems (1982-2003); "Biography"

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“To be with her is to sit in autumn sunlight;”

Virginia Woolf, in a letter to Violet Dickinson, wr. c. September 1907

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“...and I keep my feelings to myself.”

Elizabeth Bishop, from The Selected Poems of Elizabeth Bishop; "Strayed Crab"

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“I love at the edge of flames.”

Robert Desnos, from Essential Poems & Writings; "Infinitive"

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“I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not a virtue. It was a disguise.”

—The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1944-1947

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“Always continue walking a lot and loving nature, for that's the real way to learn to understand art better and better.”

—Van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

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“A thousand emotions have swept through me to-night. I don't comprehend half of them.”

—Kate Chopin, from The Awakening

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“August of another summer, and once again I am drinking the sun.”

—Mary Oliver, The Pond

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“I lose my center. I feel dispersed, scattered, in pieces.”

—May Sarton, from "Journal of a Solitude."

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“They say love's about peace, why's mine at war.”

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“Eventually you will have to give up this love, she told me one night while I made us dinner. It has a morbid heart.”

—Maggie Nelson

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“Yet this grief too has fire beneath, my heart burns but doesn't burn out.”

—Eeva-Lisa Manner

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“You need someone to hold your hands while you stand there in blinking horror, staring at the hole that was your life.”

—Megan Devine

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“One may smile and smile and be a villain.”

—William Shakespeare