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“The trouble with me is that whether I get love or not / I suffer from it.”
— C.K. Williams, from The Collected Poems; “On the Roof,”
“Have you ever been so melancholy, that you wanted to fit in the palm of your beloved’s hand? And lie there, for fortnights, or decades, or the length of time between stars? In complete silence?”
— Sarah Ruhl, Melancholy Play




