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" And nobody understands. My whole life is waiting for you. And nevertheless I search for the night of the poem. I’m only thinking of your body but am remaking the body of my poem as somebody trying to heal a wound. — Alejandra Pizarnik, from “[…] Of Silence,” Selected Poems, trans. Cecilia Rossi (Waterloo Press, 2010) "

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Alejandra Pizarnik quote : And nobody understands. My whole life is waiting for you. And nevertheless I search for the night of the poem. I’m only thinking of your body but am remaking the body of my poem as somebody trying to heal a wound. — Alejandra Pizarnik, from “[…] Of Silence,” <i>Selected Poems</i>, trans. Cecilia Rossi (Waterloo Press, 2010)