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Anne Michaels, from "Infinite Gradation," originally published in October 2017

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Anne Michaels, from "Infinite Gradation," originally published in October 2017

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Nikita Gill, from Fierce Fairytales Poems & Stories to Stir Your Soul; "Seven,"

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Leila Chatti, from “Tea”

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Czeslaw Milosz, New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001

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Lana del Rey, from Violet Bent Backward Over the Grass; "Who Am I To Love You?,"

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Nikita Gill, from Fierce Fairytales Poems & Stories to Stir Your Soul; "Boy Lost,"

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Nikita Gill, from Fierce Fairytales Poems & Stories to Stir Your Soul; "Why Tinkerbell Quit Anger Management,"

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Anaïs Nin in a diary entry dated 26 October 1915, featured in Linotte: The Early Diary of Anais Nin, 1914-1920

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Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I’m one of them.

Ray Bradbury

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Linda Pastan, from Insomnia: Poems; “In the Orchard”

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— fatima aamer bilal, from being unwanted is a language

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— nothingbutloveforyou

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— I Guess the Old You is a Ghost (#589: June 25, 2014)

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You will be too raw for some. You will be too loud, too big, too fierce, too quiet, too deep. These are not your people.

S.C. Lourie