Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
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“Sleep and dream—but not of his return.”
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Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
“he is like an icon, he is like a fantasy. I did not know him, I knew my idea of him.”
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Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
“it was never in doubt that you had suffered more than I when young.”
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“I had not remembered how deep he held himself inside himself”
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Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
“If I pass a mirror, I turn away, I do not want to look at her, and she does not want to be seen.”
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“Minute by minute, I do not get up and just go to him—”
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“It is what I do now: not go, not see or touch.”
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“My body may never learn not to yearn for that one”
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Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
“casting himself off a cliff in his fervor to get free of me.”
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“as he soars from the precipice edge, dreamy.”
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“It's so quiet, and empty, when he's left. I feel like a landscape, a ground without a figure.”
Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
“Suave qui peut—let those who can save themselves save themselves.”
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“In me now there's a being of sheer hate, like an angel of hate.”
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Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
“The other dreams inside a constellation”
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“and some young men loved them the way one would want, oneself, to be loved.”
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“God-bye, for the rest of this life and for the long nothing.”
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“And they do not know language, they are waiting for him”
Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
“refreshing to live with, beings without the knowledge of death, creatures of ignorant suffering.”
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“I think he had come, in private, to feel he was dying, with me”
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“And so he went into another world—this world, where I do not see or hear him”
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Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
“I was not the one he wanted to rise from or return to”
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Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
“I sat on the air above it and looked down on its uninhabitable beauty.”
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Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
“I idolized it without reserve, caution, or limit, I adored it with an unprotected joy.”
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Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
“Now I come to look at love in a new way, now that I know I'm not standing in its light.”
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Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
“I always feared this would happen, I thought it would be a pure horror, but it's just home”
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“I lived alongside him, in his hush and reserve”
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“But now it was time to go beyond comfort, to part.”
Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems