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• “I keep wishing for you, keep shutting up my eyes and looking toward the sky, asking with all my might for you, and yet you do not come. I thought of you, until the world grew rounder than it sometimes is, and I broke several dishes.”

“Oh my darling one, how long you wander from me, how weary I grow of waiting and looking, and calling for you; sometimes I shut my eyes, and shut my heart towards you, and try hard to forget you because you grieve me so, but you'll never go away, oh you never will.”

— Emily Dickinson, from letters

• Mitski, from “Pink in the Night”

• “I lied about the whales. Fantastical blue water-dwellers, big, slow moaners of the coastal. I never saw them. Not once that whole frozen year. Sure, I saw the raw white gannets hit the waves so hard it could have been a showy blow hole. But I knew it wasn’t. Sometimes, you just want something so hard you have to lie about it, so you can hold it in your mouth for a minute, how real hunger has a real taste.”

— Ada Limón, from “Lies About Sea Creatures”

• FKA Twigs, from “cellophane”

• “I’ve been missing her for so long, it’s come to seem that wanting anything must be only another way of wanting her.”

— Sarah Waters, from Tipping the Velvet

• Richard Siken, from “Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out”

• Maggie Nelson, from Bluets

• “The centre of every poem is this: I have loved you. I have had to deal with that.”

— Salma Deera, from Letters From Medea

• Sandra Cisneros, “One Last Poem For Richard”

• “I hope our ghosts aren’t eating you alive.”

— Lucas Regazzi, from “Small”

• Sufjan Stevens, from “The Only Thing”

• Sarah Murphy, from “Letter to the Past After Long Silence”

• Alessia di Cesare, “The Side Effects of Eating Too Many Clementines”