I love what's left after love has been tested.

Stephen Dunn

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When I stop becoming, that's when I worry.

Stephen Dunn

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Now and again I feel the astonishment of being alive like this, in this body.

Stephen Dunn

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I'll say I love you,

Which will lead, of course,
to disappointment,
but those words unsaid

poison every next moment.
I will try to disappoint you
better than anyone else has.

Stephen Dunn

Tags: love poetry disappointment

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May you turn
stone, my daughter,
into silk. May you make men better
than they are.

Stephen Dunn

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All good poems are victories over something.

Stephen Dunn

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Bring to me, it said, continual proof / you've been alive.

Stephen Dunn

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I’ve had it with all stingy-hearted sons of bitches.
A heart is to be spent.

Stephen Dunn

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I've tried

to become someone else for a while,
only to discover that he, too, was me.

Stephen Dunn

Tags: poetry identity self poem

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There are always the simple events of your life that you might try to convert into legend.

Stephen Dunn

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