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Elaine Speirs

— Abu al-Atahiya, from Diwan

الحب هو ذكاء المسافة، ألّا تقترب كثيرًا فتلغي اللهفة، ولا تبتعد طويلًا فتُنسى

Love is the intelligence of distance, not to get too close, so, you cancel out the flame, and don’t go too far and forget.

- Ahlam Mosteghanemi

"And aid my heart, ya Allah for without your aid my heart and I will never be satisfied."

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Alejandra Pizarnik, from ‘The Short Cantos: XII’, tr: Yvette Siegert

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‘The Last Sitting’ by Bert Stern, 1962.