Pretty Rains Outside

"I don't really trust people but really I am just a shy person who doesn't like being by myself."

[poetic-questions]

from Franz Kafka's "Letters to Felice"

[weltenwellen]

Rainer Maria Rilke, Journal of My Other Self

[sidneysheldon]

Sidney Sheldon, "The Other Side of Midnight"

[mournfulroses]

Dorianne Laux, from a poem featured in Only As The Day is Long: New and Selected Poems

[shisasan]

my head aches; I have a lot to say to you and am unable to summarize it. June 26, 1913 Letters to Felice by Franz Kafka First published : 1973

[weltenwellen]

Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib, from “And What Good Will Your Vanity Be When The Rapture Comes”

[shisasan]

I have always had this fear of people, not actually of the people themselves, but of their intrusion upon my weak nature; for even the most intimate friend to set foot in my room lls me with terror, and is more than just a symbol of this fear. June 26, 1913 Letters to Felice by Franz Kafka First published : 1973

[weltenwellen]

Rachel Gillig, The Knight and the Moth

[mournfulroses]

Charles Baudelaire, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Charles Baudelaire

[weltenwellen]

May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude

[weltenwellen]

Richard Siken, from "Tablecloth"

[dreamer-but-realist]

[mournfulroses]

Nikolay Punin, from a diary entry featured in The Diaries of Nikolay Punin: 1904 - 1953

[mournfulroses]

Charles Baudelaire, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Charles Baudelaire

[bitesizedpoetry]

Sylvia Plath, aged 25, from "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath" (dated June 20, 1958)

[bitesizedpoetry]

Sylvia Plath, aged 26, from "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath" (dated October 13, 1959)

[bitesizedpoetry]

Sylvia Plath, aged 26, NOTEBOOK, from "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath" (dated February 13, 1959)