"the one was the other and both were no one"
Schwartz, Rilke, Valentine, Mead, Herbert, Gregg, García Lorca
Delmore Schwartz to James Laughlin, May 8, 1951:
Rainer Maria Rilke to Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis-Hohenlohe, Nov. 17, 1912:
Jean Valentine:
Jane Mead:
Zbigniew Herbert (trans. Czeslaw Milosz and Peter Dale Scott):
Linda Gregg:
Federico García Lorca (trans. W.S. Merwin):
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