— Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin: Vol. 1 (1931-1934)
[text ID: I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.]
getting that august feeling (things that have ended endlessly are ending again)
George Seferis, tr. by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard, from The Collected Poems 1924-1955; “Salamis in Cyprus”
— Frank Bidart, from “Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016; 'Guilty of Dust'.
