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Nelly Arcan, from Burqa of Skin.

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Made to love, but not to be loved; made to understand, but not to be understood; always the poet, never the poetry.

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— Silas Melvin

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Czeslaw Milosz, New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001

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Safia Elhillo, from "Summer," Girls That Never Die.

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When i look at my Dreams sometimes I wonder are they really my dreams or I'm trying to live someone's?

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you can not speak in poetry

to someone who does not read.

they don’t know what it’s like

to have to pick up a pen to survive.

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ANNE SEXTON

‘The Truth the Dead Know’, The Complete Poems (1981);

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Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies

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youve died a thousand times before who caaares just climb out of this grave again & again &agaian & agaian & again & again & aga