The Words We Never Said

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Charles Wright, from "A Journal of the Year of the Ox", The World of Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990 [ID'd]

Emily Dickinson, in a letter to Louise and Frances Norcross, wr. c. Autumn 1880, from The Letters of Emily Dickinson

Zinaida Nikolaevna Gippius, translated by Babette Deutsch, from “You Appeared,”

Oscar Wilde, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Oscar Wilde

Virginia Woolf, from her book titled "Night and Day," originally published in 1919

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― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

Charles Wright, from "Thinking of Georg Trakl", Country Music: Selected Early Poems [ID'd]

Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait in Letters

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, from a letter to Robert Browning written c. March 1845

—Richard Siken, "Wishbone"

Charlotte Brontë, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Charlotte Brontë