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“A cold winter night. I'm warm enough, yet I'm alone. And I realize that I'll 'have' to get used to existing quite 'naturally' within the solitude, functioning there, working there, accompanied by, 'fastened to' the "presence of absence.”

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Author:Roland Barthes

“I never got to wash my mother's body when she died. I return to take care of her in memory. That's how I make peace when things are left undone.”

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Book:An American Sunrise

Source: An American Sunrise

“you learned from a Korean poet in Seoul: that one does not bury the mother's body in the ground but in the chest, or--like you-- you carry her corpse on your back.”

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Book:Monument: Poems New and Selected

Source: Monument: Poems New and Selected

“I love these geese. They make my chest tight and full and help me believe that things will be all right again, that I will pass through this time as I have passed through other times, that the vast and threatening blank ahead of me is a mere specter, that life is lighter and more playful than I’m giving it credit for. But right on the heels of that feeling, that suspicion that all is not yet lost, comes the urge to tell my mother, tell her that I am okay today, that I have felt something close to happiness, that I might still be capable of feeling happy. She will want to know that. But I can't tell her. That's the wall I always slam into on a good morning like this. My mother will be worrying about me, and I can't tell her that I'm okay. The geese don't care that I'm crying again. They're used to it.”

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Book:Writers & Lovers

Source: Writers & Lovers

“Waking, I am freighted with memory: my mother's last words spoken--after her death--in a dream: Do you know what it means to have a wound that never heals?”

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Book:Monument: Poems New and Selected

Source: Monument: Poems New and Selected

“You breathe upon us now through solid assertions of yourself: teaspoons, goblets, seas of carpet, a forest of old plants to be watered an old man in an adjoining room to be touched and fed. And all this universe dares us to lay a finger anywhere, save exactly as you would wish it done.”

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Author:Adrienne Rich

“I wonder if my first breath was as soul-stirring to my mother as her last breath was to me”

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Book:14 Days: A Mother, A Daughter, A Two Week Goodbye

Source: 14 Days: A Mother, A Daughter, A Two Week Goodbye