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“—it was quite a pity to throw away such beautiful words out the window into the dark.”— Robert Browning, in a letter (April 17th 1846) to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, in Sonnets from the Portuguese (ed. William Peterson & Julia Markus)
“you…for me…sensually and intellectually…the two cannot separate.”— Paul Celan, from a letter to Ingeborg Bachmann featured in Paul Celan: Selections.
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