[mournfulroses]

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Incest: A Jounal of Love; The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1947-1955

[mournfulroses]

Angela Carter, from her novel titled "Wise Children," originally published in 1991

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𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑙 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑡, 𝐼𝑛 𝑆𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑐𝘩 𝑜𝑓 𝐿𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑇𝑖𝑚𝑒. 𝑇𝘩𝑒 𝐺𝑢𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑊𝑎𝑦 𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑠𝘩𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝐴𝑢𝑔𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟶

[vexheart]

[petaltexturedskies]

Schuyler Peck, Worth the Wait

[fawnaura]

Give me your solitude, or better, the space between your lips, the skin of a thigh, something to cover me. The gesture that flows from desire, something solid, graspable, exterior, something yours to prop up my rootlessness.

Rafael Guillén, “Spouses” from I’m Speaking, tr. by Sandy McKinney

[mournfulroses]

Fyodor Dostoevsky, tr. by Hugh Aplin, from "Poor People," originally written in 1846

[mournfulroses]

Rainer Maria Rilke, from a letter featured in The Dark Interval: Letters on Death

[mournfulroses]

Rainer Maria Rilke, from a letter featured in The Dark Interval: Letters on Death

[shisasan]

March, 1933 The diary of Anaïs Nin [Volume One: 1931-1934]

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[ Text ID: 𝑇𝘩𝑒𝑟𝑒, 𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝘩𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑛𝑖𝑔𝘩𝑡, 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝘩𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓 𝑡𝘩𝑒 𝑛𝑖𝑔𝘩𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑎𝑙𝑒, 𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝘩𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑡𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑐𝘩𝑜𝑙𝑦 ]

𝑇𝘩𝑒 𝑀𝑦𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑈𝑑𝑜𝑙𝑝𝘩𝑜 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝐺𝑜𝑡𝘩𝑖𝑐 𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑙 𝑏𝑦 𝐴𝑛𝑛 𝑅𝑎𝑑𝑐𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒, 𝑤𝘩𝑖𝑐𝘩 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝟾 𝑀𝑎𝑦 𝟷𝟽𝟿𝟺 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝐺. 𝐺. 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐽. 𝑅𝑜𝑏𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝐿𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑜𝑛.

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[ Text ID: 𝑎 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑦 𝑣𝑒𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑖𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑦𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑢𝑛𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑙𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑘𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 - 𝑡𝘩𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑓𝑡 𝑦𝑒𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑗𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑦 ]

𝐴𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑟𝑜 𝑀𝑎𝑛𝑧𝑜𝑛𝑖 (𝟷𝟽𝟾𝟻-𝟷𝟾𝟽𝟹)'𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑙 𝑇𝘩𝑒 𝐵𝑒𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑡𝘩𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑠𝘩𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝟷𝟾𝟸𝟽

[mournfulroses]

Clarice Lispector, from "Too Much of Life Complete Chronicles," publ. in 2022

[petaltexturedskies]

Anne Sexton, from “The Sermon of the Twelve Acknowledgements” in The Complete Poems

[mournfulroses]

Ping Hsin, from a poem featured in Modern Chinese Poetry: Introduction

[deviika]

Alice Notley // Warsan Shire

[shisasan]

𝙹𝚊𝚗𝚞𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝟸𝟹, 𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟸 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺-𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟹