i have a longing that's killing me.
mahmoud darwish, memory for forgetfulness
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Jane Hirshfield, from The Beauty: Poems; “Entanglement”
[Text ID: “You are there. I am here. I remember.”]
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― Joan Didion, Blue Nights
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Better off forgotten
The Memory PoliceBy Yoko Ogawa274 pp. Vintage. $16.
The most disappointing book I’ve read this year. What should have been a dazzling work of dystopian literature comes off as an unoriginal retread. This just goes to show that intriguing concepts don’t necessarily translate to great literature.
The “action” — if you can call it that — takes place on a Japanese island where disappearances of…
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George Seferis, from Collected Poems; "Memory I" (tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard)
[Text ID: I whispered: memory hurts wherever you touch it,]
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Dear me ,
Don't be hard on yourself , you're doing okay
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F. Scott Fitzgerald // Daniel Kahneman
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Yannis Ritsos, trans. by Kimon Friar, from a poem featured in "Erotica: Love Poems,"
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“We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.”
― Louise Gluck
Photo: from Andrei Tarkovskys "The Mirror" (1975)
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I remember all the things that you've forgotten.
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Doubt, fear, anger, disappointment
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Linda Pastan, from Waiting for My Life: Poems; "What We Want"
[Text ID: "and in the morning / our arms ache. / We don't remember the dream, / but the dream remembers us."]
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—Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
[That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.]
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Morality, too, is a question of time.
Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores
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Mercy, Mercy Me, John Murillo
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