life is certainly not what I thought it would be at this time.
— Jihyun Yun, from “The Leaving Season,” Some Are Always Hungry
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What kind of writer am I? With all this love and no words for it?
— Anne Sexton, Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters
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rainer maria rilke, letters to a young poet
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Jenny George
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i miss every girl in my life who was nice to me
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“Some scholars observe that, in classrooms today, the initial gesture of criticism can seem to carry more prestige than the long pursuit of understanding. One literature professor and critic at Harvard - not old or white or male - noticed that it had become more publicly rewarding for students to critique something as “problematic” than to grapple with what the problems might be; they seemed to have found that merely naming concerns had more value, in today’s cultural marketplace, than curiosity about what underlay them.”
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