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Without thinking, I knelt in the grass, like someone meaning to pray. When I tried to stand again, I couldn't move, my legs were utterly rigid. Does grief change you like that? Through the birches, I could see the pond. The sun was cutting small white holes in the water. I got up finally; I walked down to the pond. I stood there, brushing the grass from my skirt, watching myself, like a girl after her first lover turning slowly at the bathroom mirror, naked, looking for a sign. But nakedness in women is always a pose. I was not transfigured. I would never be free.

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Without thinking, I knelt in the grass, like someone meaning to pray. When I tried to stand again, I couldn't move, my legs were utterly rigid. Does …

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I’m like the child who buries her head in the pillow so as not to see, the child who tells herself that light causes sadness—

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The soul is silent. If it speaks at all it speaks in dreams.

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What was difficult was the travel, which, on arrival, is forgotten.

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The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.

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We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.

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At the end of my suffering/there was a door.

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From the beginning of time, in childhood, I thought that pain meant I was not loved. It meant I loved.

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Intense love always leads to mourning.

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