We know little, but that we must attach ourselves to what is difficult is a certainty that never deserts us. —Rilke

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"I do not know what I hold more clearly in my mind: the pain of what I can never have, or the pain of knowing I have its equivalence, which is a shocking contrast, a kind of magnificent reality." aprweb.org/issue-index/2026-… buy issue for all poems🖤 honored to be among these poets
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John Berryman, #BOTD (25 October 1914), “He Resigns”
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It is not for me to say what is this wind or how it came to blow through the rooms of my heart. Wing after wing, through the rooms of the dead the wind does not blow. —Deborah Digges
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"this woman who was in me died. For a tomb I gave her all her kingdom, nature. I buried her in the most secret spot in the deceitful garden, where the gaze of the moon, the eternal promiser, divides & the leafage & descends upon the sleeping woman in myriad degrees of sweetness."
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It is a drab misery that urges me to remember you —Ruth Stone 🖤
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Yes, we always keep it fresh 🌿🖤 in Vermont @monicaferrell -- 🍁 and beyond
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one of the best ones. dying.
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seven-figure poems brands
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"are they then retargeted with the fact that Bianca Stone is a retailer of poems?" this metaphysical knot will not be untied with a short phone call, Evan.
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in their conspicuous absence, that thingness of the poem itself offers us something beyond object altogether. That the vessel of the poem is a gift we raise to our lips; that it takes in the world in a kind of proximity of liquid, air, border, and lack
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"Sides and bottom are, to be sure, what is impermeable in the vessel. But what is impermeable is not yet what does the holding...” Heidegger (Das Ding)
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why do I think of this . what do the hands see
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Release, release
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Anne Carson has won the Nobel Prize in Literature! In our Summer 1991 Issue, we published a selection of her "Short Talks." Revisit them here: yalereview.org/article/carso…
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Anne Carson! 🖤
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Why cast the world away. For someone hooked up to Thou, the world may have seemed a kind of half finished sentence. —Anne Carson
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BREAKING NEWS The 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”
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