Dr. Maya C. Popa
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I post this haunting Naomi Shihab Nye poem every 4th of July:
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“We can practice being gentle with each other by being gentle with that piece of ourselves that is hardest to hold.”
— Audre Lorde
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Always moved by this...
Virginia Woolf in a letter to Vita Sackville-West:
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"In case you ever foolishly forget: I am never not thinking of you."
— Virginia Woolf
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She understood so much.
RIP Joan Didion (1934 - 2021):
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These lines from Anne Carson's Orestes (Euripides) never cease to move:
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Happy birthday to dearest
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Love each other without scruples or restraint...
Franz Kafka (Letters to Milena, Schocken Books, 1952):
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“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness.”
— Anaïs Nin
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"In this short Life that only lasts an hour merely / How much - how little - is within our power."
Happy birthday, Emily Dickinson.
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It's 2022! Here's a reminder that not all writers publish their first books in infancy:
George Eliot: 40
Toni Morrison: 40
Marcel Proust: 43
Tolkien: 45
Annie Proulx: 57
Daniel Defoe: 59
Laura Ingalls Wilder: 65
Frank McCourt: 66
KEEP WRITING. Your book is right on time. ✨
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Still not over this Old English word, which feels like an entire philosophy in itself we'd do well to adopt.
From dūst (“dust”) + sċēawung (“inspection, contemplation”):
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Please have your mind wonderfully blown by this Mark Strand poem:
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I seasonally post this poem by Molly Brodak, a poet whose life ended too soon, but whose mark on the poetry community was profound.
It feels right to post it on National Poetry Day.
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"I exist in two places, here and where you are."
― Margaret Atwood
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Revisiting one of my favorite passages from an interview with Toni Morrison:
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"Loving you is like saying 'I'm alive.'"
Nazim Hikmet (trans. by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk):
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"I exist in two places, here and where you are."
― Margaret Atwood
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“If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much that you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door.”
— Clarissa Pinkola Estés
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Dorothy Parker articulating her
#Antifa
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“If I write what I feel, it’s to reduce the fever of feeling.”
— Fernando Pessoa
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