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“--One day it happens: what you have feared all your life, the unendurably specific, the exact thing. No matter what you say or do.”

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Marie Howe

Marie Howe, born in 1950, is an accomplished American poet. Her works are known for their deep emotion and keen observations of everyday life, earning her a dedicated following. more

“She went to the church to sit in the cave of stone, filled with the voices of strangers. Murmurs coming through the air, bowling in the ceiling and sifting down with the speckled greens and blues, the deep dark red of the stained glass at the end of the nave. She sat in the hard wooden pew and waited for the hymns. And when the singing started, she could weep. She went to the church to open her mouth and feel her heart again, constricted, struggling, banging against her throat, the tears there in the place of words, her voice struggling out in the vast air, stopped by grief.”

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Book:The Guest Book

Source: The Guest Book

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“For your love given ask no return, none. To love you must love to love.”

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“Why not the Victorians and their sentimental grief-wreaths woven from a loved one's hair?”

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Book:Space, in Chains

Source: Space, in Chains

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