“Don’t be afraid to suffer; return that heaviness to the earth’s own weight; heavy are the mountains, heavy the seas.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, from “Sonnet IV,” trans. Stephen Mitchell, in Duino Elegies & The Sonnets To Orpheus
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I realize that being a woman is a lot
like being a planet—I can’t decide
what my gravity attracts. I am as helpless
as I am powerful. I am very powerful.— Rita Feinstein, from Life on Dodge
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“Anxiety, the blackness that circulates in your veins.”— Yvan Goll, tr. by Donald Wellman, from “Always at the Hour of Morning Sun,”
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“I learned to know the love of bare November days,”— Robert Frost, from The Complete Poems; “My November Guest,”
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