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Zbigniew Herbert, from "Daedalus and Icarus", The Collected Poems: 1956-1998 (trans. Alissa Valles) [ID'd]
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Evening walk again. Seattle, May 2025.
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Dunya Mikhail, from "The Iraqi Nights", The Iraqi Nights (trans. Kareem James Abu-Zeid) [ID'd]
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Charles Wright, from "Thinking of Georg Trakl", Country Music: Selected Early Poems [ID'd]
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Sometimes I tell myself: your fate is unique; consider all others fortunate—no other has ever been so tormented. Then I read a poet of past times, and it is as if I were looking into my own heart.
Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther (trans. Bayard Quincy Morgan)
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…….thinking about this………..always thinking about this…..
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Mary Oliver, Everything
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what frank o’hara said: “i’ve loved too little and i’m tired of running”
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Kevork Emin, from Anthology of Armenian Poetry, ed. & tr. by Diana Der Hovanessian and Marzbed Margossian; "The waiting"
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Charles Wright, from "The Southern Cross", The World of Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990 [ID'd]
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Again the silence of flowers [...] How easily summer fills the room.
Charles Wright, from "The Southern Cross", The World of Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990
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some days you really do have to just find and wrench one tiny thing from the world w the determination of a hog digging out truffles and make it your anchor. raindrops on a window. smell of the bakery in the supermarket. single defiant tuft of grass between the cracks on the pavement. etc. hold it all w equally grubby and defiant hands.
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Taste of Cherry (1997) dir. Abbas Kiarostami
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And I—and I go out without hope, without purpose, and return home the same as when I went.
Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther (trans. Bayard Quincy Morgan)
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Desires are already memories.
Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities (trans. William Weaver)
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音楽. Yukako Manabe.
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