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Olga Broumas
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“Whatever is past / and has come to an end / cannot be brought back by sorrow.”
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“I am a woman / who understands / the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin / still lie beyond me.”
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“... in a ward on fire, we must / find words / or burn.”
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“I grow old, old / without you, Mother, landscape / of my heart.”
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“Even when I cannot write, I know I am still a writer, just the way I know I am still sexual even if I have not had a lover for many months.”
Olga Broumas, Greek-born U.S. poet
(1949)