February 2012
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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t...
– Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum
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Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a...
– Sylvia Plath
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‘One thing that always worried me,’ she said slowly, smiling at Warren, ‘there...
– Joyce Carol Oates
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By the time you swear you’re his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his...
– Dorothy Parker
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But most hearts say, I want, I want,
I want, I want. My heart
is more...
– Margaret Atwood, excerpt from “The Woman Who Could Not Live With Her Faulty Heart”
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We were together. I forget the rest.
– Walt Whitman
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We want so much,
When perhaps we live best
In the spaces between loves,
That...
– Tracy K. Smith, “A Hunger So Honed”