Is there another life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be, we cannot be created for this sort of suffering.
John Keats, from a letter to Charles Brown, dated September 28, 1820
poetry truly is the most painful & lifesaving of all art forms. like open-heart surgery
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“Summer is growing old and everything is flowing into a single melancholy murmur”
~ Tomas Tranströmer, from “The Cuckoo”
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Could it think, the heart would stop beating.
Fernando Pessoa, from The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Classics, 2022; first published 1982)
“How shall we find our way in- to this moment which stands between us and a remembered future?”— Karl Kirchwey, from “Roman Park, Noon,” At the Palace of Jove: Poems (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2002)
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Far far away, no voices sounding, no one around me.
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