“I know, released, she won't come back. This is different from letting what, already, we count as lost go. It is nothing like that. Also, it is not like wanting to learn what losing a thing we love feels like, Oh yes: I love her.”
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Carl Phillips, born on July 23, 1959, is an American writer known primarily for his poetry, which also includes novels and essays. His poetry style is distinctive, often exploring personal emotions and the relationship between history and memory. more
“Is there no saving what betrays itself?”
“I like places in which things have happened — even if they're sad things.”
“I am just a past with no present.”
“It's so sad, all our house seems broken apart, everyone is going.”
“You are sad." "I am always sad.”