— Adrienne Rich, from The Collected Poems: 1950-2012; “One Life,”

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Don’t expect me to make you smile When I walk in through your door. Some days I can’t smile at all. I could lose it all I could lose it all Grey skies I can see those clouds again. Don’t wait around all day I may never show my face. I came into your life like a ghost Never left a trace. Grey skies Getting ready for the rain.

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— André Breton, tr. by Mary Ann Caws, fromfrom Poems; “Vigilance,”

— Ahmed Nada, from “Once and again” In: “A Little After They Left” (2012)

— June Owens, from The Muse Strikes Back; “Small Quarrel with T. S. Eliot,”

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why does my heart go on beating? why do these eyes of mine cry? don’t they know it’s the end of the world? it ended when you said good-bye.

(National Geographic)

1. recollection, especially of a supposed previous existence. In philosophy, anamnesis (/ˌænæmˈniːsɪs/; Ancient Greek: ἀνάμνησις) is a concept in Plato’s epistemological and psychological theory. It is the idea that humans possess innate knowledge (perhaps acquired before birth) and that learning consists of rediscovering that knowledge within us.

People who know what they like and dislike without trying to “understand” their own preferences. People who don’t have it in them to experiment for the sake of experimenting. People who go at it naturally, people who were born to simply pay close attention to what their heart is about and obey.