isabela

[mournfulroses]

Anne Sexton, from a letter featured in Anne Sexton; A Self-Portrait In Letters

[incilerden]

[feral-ballad]

Sayat Nova, from Anthology of Armenian Poetry, ed. & tr. by Diana Der Hovanessian and Marzbed Margossian; "I traveled the world"

[petaltexturedskies]

Mary Oliver, from Long Life: Essays And Other Writings

[nevver]

Komorebi, Duri Baek

[feral-ballad]

Ama Codjoe, from Bluest Nude: Poems; “Bluest Nude”

[Text ID: “I crave. I want to be seen clearly or not at all.”]

[dazedstare]

[1five1two]

Fuco Ueda.

[feral-ballad]

Kim Addonizio, from Lucifer at the Starlite: Poems; “You Were”

[zegalba]

Yuzu Kato: Borrowing from the Tiger's Majesty (2022)

[mysticaletherealliving]

The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even during the day with covers pulled up to my chin. It was good in there, nothing ever occurred in there, no people, nothing.

- Charles Bukowski

[mournfulroses]

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, from a letter to Maria Gisborne written in September 1822, featured in The Letters of Mary Shelley

[mournfulroses]

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

[mournfulroses]

Margaret Atwood, from a poem titled "Tricks With Mirrors," featured in You Are Happy

[mournfulroses]

Suzanne Scanlon, from "Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen," published in 2024

[mournfulroses]

Vita Sackville-West, from a letter to Virginia Woolf, featured in The Letters of Vita Sackville West & Virginia Woolf

[mournfulroses]

Franz Kafka, from a diary entry featured in "Kafka: The Tremendous World I Have Inside my Head,"