Anne Carson, from “The Glass Essay”, Glass, Irony, and God
“They say birds always find their way back home / but home is a nowhere – a memory; a never was.”
— Richard Georges, from “Dead Reckoning,” published in The White Review (via lifeinpoetry)
Simone de Beauvoir, from Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 1, 1926-1927; September 14th, 1926
Text ID: I do not even know what my face looks like in the mind of those who think of me. For others, what am I?
““There’s a special place in my heart for the ones who were with me at my lowest and still loved me when I wasn‘t very loveable.” - Unknown”
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“carrying a rage, a leftover rage I cannot undo.”
— Anne Sexton, from Live or Die; A Little Uncomplicated Hymn.