These Years of Magical Thinking

Adrienne Rich, from “Origins and History of Consciousness”, The Dream of a Common Language

Clarice Lispector, tr. by Elizabeth Lowe, Água Viva

Gillian Flynn ― Sharp Objects

“Things I Do When I Cannot Hold You” by Clementine Von Radics, from Mouthful of Forevers.

George Seferis, tr. by Edmund Keeley & Philip Sherrard from, “In the Kyrenia District.” [ID in alt text]

Greg Sellers, journal entry, “Notes from Neruda’s Ghost,” 29 May 2018 (via memoryslandscape)

I’ll go. And I’ll stay— and we’ll be okay.

Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (via bookmania)

— Anne Sexton, All My Pretty Ones; from ‘Flight’

Dmitry Merezhkovsky, from She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not; 20th Century Russian Poetry (ed. by Yevgeny Yevtushenko)

[Text ID: “(What is less or more than a touch?)”]

Olga Broumas, Beginning with O; “Four Beginnings”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, from a letter to Lou Andreas-Salomé, 6 July 1898 (tr. by Edward Snow & Michael Winkler)

Gregory Orr, “Ode to Some Lyric Poets” The Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write

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