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Linda Pastan

(Source: poetryfoundation.org)

x "… It is unbearably painful
For the soul to love silently."
— Anna Akhmatova, from The Complete Poems (translated by Judith Hemschemeyer)

x "… I dare not let it languish,
Dare not indulge in memory’s rapturous pain;
Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish,
How could I seek the empty world again?"
— Emily Brontë, from “Remembrance”

x "Long ago, I was wounded. I lived
to revenge myself
against my father, not
for what he was—
for what I was: from the beginning of time,
in childhood, I thought
that pain meant
I was not loved.
It meant I loved."
— First Memory by Louise Glück (thank you, readalittlepoetry)

x "You were unsure which pain is worse — the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will."
— Everything Beautiful Began After by Simon Van Booy

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