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Fleabag The Scriptures, Phobe-Waller Bridge

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The Mirror (1975) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

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— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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“Ah, but where will you go from there, where? Your heart is driving you out of yourself, your heart is after you, and you are almost beside yourself and you can't go back. Like a beetle stepped on, you ooze out of yourself, and your little scrap of carapace and adaptability is meaningless.”

– Rainer Maria Rilke, from The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

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words from sun bleached flies by ethel cain

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— Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

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― Anne Carson, Glass, Irony and God

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— The Lover, Marguerite Duras

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— The Lover, Marguerite Duras

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― Anne Carson, Glass, Irony and God

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― Anne Carson, Glass, Irony and God

Text ID: it would be sweet to have a friend to tell things to at night / without the terrible sex price to pay.

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Louise Glück, from ""Averno", Averno

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Do you ever feel like your kindness is just a defense from being truly known? Have you ever hidden yourself so far from everyone that even you couldn't reach you?

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— Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass

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To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

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”pdf file” “unalived” “grape” “corn” what if i killed myself right here right now

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not sure if anyone is interested in this but here is a list of the most joyfully vital poems I know :)

You're the Top by Ellen Bass

Grand Fugue by Peter E. Murphy

Our Beautiful Life When It's Filled with Shrieks by Christopher Citro

Everything Is Waiting For You by David Whyte

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Is Alive! by Emily Sernaker

Instructions for Assembling the Miracle by Peter Cooley

Barton Springs by Tony Hoagland

Footnote to Howl by Allen Ginsberg

Song of the Open Road by Walt Whitman

Tomorrow, No, Tomorrower by Bradley Trumpfheller

At Last the New Arriving by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

To a Self-Proclaimed Manic Depressive Ex-Stripper Poet, After a Reading by Jeannine Hall Gailey

In the Presence of Absence by Richard Widerkehr

Chillary Clinton Said 'We Have to Bring Them to Heal' by Cortney Lamar Charleston

Midsummer by Charles Simic

Today by Frank O'Hara

Naturally by Stephen Dunn

Life is Slightly Different Than You Think It Is by Arthur Vogelsang

Ode to My Husband, Who Brings the Music by Zeina Hashem Beck

The Imaginal Stage by D.A. Powell

Lucky Life by Gerald Stern

Beginner's Lesson by Malcolm Alexander

Presidential Poetry Briefing by Albert Haley

A Poem for Uncertainties by Mark Terrill

On Coming Home by Lisa Summe

G-9 by Tim Dlugos

Five Haiku by Billy Collins

The Fates by David Kirby

Upon Receiving My Inheritance by William Fargason

Variation on a Theme by W. S. Merwin

Easy as Falling Down Stairs by Dean Young

Psalm 150 by Jericho Brown

Pantoum for Sabbouha by Zeina Hashem Beck

ASMR by Corey Van Landingham

A Welcome by Joanna Klink

From Blossoms by Li-Young Lee

At Church, I Tell My Mom She’s Singing Off-Key and She Says, by Michael Frazier