Zinaida Nikolaevna Gippius, translated by Babette Deutsch, from “Creation,”
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I wish to live a life that causes my soul to dance inside my body.
Dele Olanubi
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Julia de Burgos, tr. by Jack Agüeros, from Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos; "Night of love in three cantos"
[Text ID: "your life and my life have kissed... / and our souls are nearing each other!"]
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Your eyes.
Your eyes hold everything my soul thirsts for.
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Every day I get more convinced
that I was created for you alone.
It is through your eyes that I saw the world;
on your lips my poems were born.
Without you,
my life is a wasteland.
I am colorless,
tasteless,
smelling like a land never visited by rain.
Rawda el-Haj, tr. & ed. Adil Babikir, Modern Sudanese Poetry: An Anthology; “Heart’s Confessions”
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Mary Shelley, from Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
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constantly on this search
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Why explore the universe, When we don’t know ourselves?
Bring Me The Horizon ”Hospital for souls”
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You just have to say to yourself “I’m not willing to accept anything less for myself than what I deserve. I am smart. I am beautiful. I am a good woman, and I deserve to be happy.
Amari Soul
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I must warn you of my bad disposition. I am incapable of speaking of myself and of my life and the states of my soul, I am discreet to an almost pathological degree, and there is nothing I can do against that. If this is possible for you, I'd like to speak of literature.
- Milan Kundera, in a 1985 letter to the New York Times in response to them asking for an interview
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