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Sometimes, there seems to be a halfway point between where you've been and everywhere else, and we were there.

Ada Limón, Oh Please, Let It Be Lightning

what I have done is risked everything for that hour, that hour in the black night, where one flashing light looks like love,

Ada Limón, Glow

and I never knew survival was like that. If you live, you look back and beg for it again, the hazardous bliss before you know what you would miss.

Ada Limón, Before

How imagining death can make it easier 

to live and I agree and say, It’s called die

before you die.

- Ada Limón, The Long Ride

Every moon will be a moon of surrender

Ada Limón, The Noisiness of Sleep

You're the muscle / I cut from the bone and still the bone / remembers, still it wants (so much it wants)

Ada Limón, In A Mexican Restaurant I Recall How Much You Upset Me

I was suddenly some safer form of fire.

Ada Limón, What Remains Grows Ravenous

and how it's hard not to always want something else, not just to let the savage grass grow.

Ada Limón, Mowing

You never refuse. You simply don't speak.

Alicja Rybałko, A Prayer for the Forbidden Fruit tr. Regina Grol

To live in this tragedy without raptures

Alicja Rybałko, Curriculum Vitae tr. Regina Grol

Not to act in this tragedy, but to live

Alicja Rybałko, Curriculum Vitae tr. Regina Grol

but you, in this wilderness alone You've got to live to take the next bite

Dagna Ślepowrońska, tr. Regina Grol

Until I come to understand that to be saved doesn't mean to save but to survive.

Dagna Ślepowrońska, tr. Regina Grol

I am only as much as I'm not.

Dagna Ślepowrońska, tr. Regina Grol

I am a song about the great pain of joy.

Dagna Ślepowrońska, tr. Regina Grol

I say we but it's just an illusion that our hearts beat in unison

Wisława Szymborska, We tr. Regina Grol

And your lips rise from the dead in each of my smiles.

Wisława Szymborska, A Sentence tr. Regina Grol

the body is and is and is and has no place to go.

Wisława Szymborska, Tortures tr. Regina Grol

Either she loves him, or she is resolved to.

Wisława Szymborska, Portrait of a Woman tr. Regina Grol

Someone was and was here and then suddenly disappeared and is stubbornly gone.

Wisława Szymborska, A Cat in an Empty Apartment tr. Regina Grol

FOR RENT: / an empty sky

- Agata Tuszyńska, Classified Ads tr. Regina Grol

I recognize you by the smell of rain

- Agata Tuszyńska, The Third Shore tr. Regina Grol

- take it all / - it’s too little

- Agata Tuszyńska, tr. Regina Grol

I look at you as if I were looking for the first time.

Adriana Szymańska, Ode to a Man tr. Regina Grol

green leaves / torn straight from the cross

- Agata Tuszyńska, Faith tr. Regina Grol

from behind a / pillar / of unarrived / moments

- Zofia Zarębianka, tr. Regina Grol

A handwritten note, scrawled in Arabic on a torn cigarette pack, was discovered on the ground last week in Pozzallo as migrants filed off a ship. It was from someone initialed “A” to someone else initialed “R.”

“I wanted to be with you,” read the note. “Don’t you dare forget me. I love you very much. My wish is for you not to forget me. Be well my love. A loves R. I love you.”

كلمات عربية مكتوبة بخط اليد على غلاف علبة سجائر ممزقة عُثر عليها بعد إنقاذ مركب لمهاجريين غير شرعيين لإيطاليا من أ لـ ر The New York Times | T.B : Lynsey Addario 

For what more terrifying revelation can there be than that it is the present moment?

- Virginia Woolf, Orlando

Thought and life are as the poles asunder.

- Virginia Woolf, Orlando

they had guessed, as always happens between lovers, everything of any importance about each other in two seconds at the utmost.

- Virginia Woolf, Orlando