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your one hundred valentines.
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distrust everything if you have to. but trust the hours. haven’t they carried you everywhere, up to now?
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one might still offer even to the betrayed world a rose.
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can a poem save a life?
to suggest that a poem can save a life is to first imply an understanding of what constitutes a life that requires saving.
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one might still offer even to the betrayed world a rose.
living seems to me to be something like this— less an act of figuring out 'how' and more an act of realising 'oh yes'.
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a rainbow does nothing.
but you can still be weak before it: a caretaker of silence, a connoisseur of stillness, a listener of wind.
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distrust everything if you have to. but trust the hours. haven’t they carried you everywhere, up to now?
it’s the dream of all poems, and the text of all loves: Tenderness toward Existence.
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because all this mess grief makes, it makes with love.
there are particular places things go when they are taken from us— the tip of our tongue and the back of our mind— where storage is easy, but retrieval…
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your one hundred valentines.
or: compensations for those who feel ill-prepared for the privileges of living
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it's a dangerous thing to have a soul.
clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.
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