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happy "everyone forgets that icarus also flew" monday. i want to throw up !

#jack gilbert #poetry #poem #quotes

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The Moon That Turns You Back, Hala Alyan

#hala alyan #poetry #poem

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In Blackwater Woods, Mary Oliver

#in blackwater woods #mary oliver #poetry #poems

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Santa Tarantula, Jordan Pérez

#quotes #poetry #quote #poem #jordan pérez #words #on writing #literature

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The Day

by Peter Everwine

We walked at the edge of the sea, the dog, still young then, running ahead of us.

Few people. Gulls. A flock of pelicans circled beyond the swells, then closed their wings and dropped head-long into the dazzle of light and sea. You clapped your hands; the day grew brilliant.

Later we sat at a small table with wine and food that tasted of the sea.

A perfect day, we said to one another, so that even when the day ended and the lights of houses among the hills came on like a scattering of embers, we watched it leave without regret.

That night, easing myself toward sleep, I thought how blindly we stumble ahead with such hope, a light flares briefly — Ah, Happiness! then we turn and go on our way again.

But happiness, too, goes on its way, and years from where we were, I lie awake in the dark and suddenly it returns — that day by the sea, that happiness,

though it is not the same happiness, not the same darkness.

#poetry #poem #peter everwine

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oh

#poetry #T_T #poem #quote #eve ewing

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social skills training, solmaz sharif

#poetry #poem #words #solmaz sharif

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“The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light. Gentle work. Steadfast work. Life-saving work in those moments when life and shame and sorrow occlude our own light from our view, but there is still a clear-eyed loving person to beam it back. In our best moments, we are that person for another.”

— Maria Popova (via un-dossier)

#maria popova #words #quote #on living #on love

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song of the anti-sisyphus by Chen Chen

#chen chen #poetry #poem #words #on love

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Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

#on relationships #on people #jenny slate #little weirds #words #quote #book quote

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"Who has not asked himself at some time or other: Am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?"

—Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

#clarice lispector #the hour of the star #quote #words

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Ruth Awad, from “Reasons To Live”

#poetry #ruth awad #poem #words

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Lucille Clifton, 'i am running into a new year'

#lucille clifton #poetry #poem #words #quote

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"maybe love is a mosquito net between the fear of living and the fear of death."

—Francis Bacon

#quote #francis bacon #on love

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Anne Carson, from Red Doc>

#anne carson

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Ellen Bass, “The Thing Is”

#hopepunk #poetry #ellen bass #poem #on living

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“Sometimes the most healing thing we can do is remind ourselves over and over and over other people feel this too.”

— Andrea Gibson

#words #andrea gibson