February 2012
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I am going to die of dark water and small hands
the time bomb will go off and when it does you can wrap yourself in all of my poems.
— J. Clark
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I have always lived with the awareness of the impossibility of living. And what...
– Emile Cioran
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All that is personal soon rots; it must be packed in ice or salt.
– W.B. Yeats
The lightning has shown me the scars of the future.
– W. S. Merwin, from “The Nails”
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He was the kind of asshole who names his dog Tarkovsky
Sorrow almost resents love, it is so inflamed.
I am glad if the broken words...
– Emily Dickinson, from a letter dated January 1878
I put out my hand and the dark falls through it
– W. S. Merwin, from “Before That”
Our two teachers, pain and fear
– JR