[mournfulroses]

Margaret Atwood, from an essay featured in "In Other Worlds," originally published in 2011

[petaltexturedskies]

Robert Frost, in a letter to a letter to Louis Untermeyer, dated 1 January 1916, from The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Edgar Allan Poe from “The Sleeper” (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

[petaltexturedskies]

and my head aches a little, and my heart a little more

Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Abiah Rooth written c. May 1852

[starlightacademia]

Kazuo Ishiguro | from his Nobel prize (2017) acceptance speech.

[petaltexturedskies]

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

[bitesizedpoetry]

Sylvia Plath, aged 25, from "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath" (dated February 21, 1958)

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“Brutal perhaps, but at the same time delicate, very delicate.”

— D. H. Lawrence, from The Complete Works; “The Rainbow,” wr. c. 1919

[feral-ballad]

Carrie Fountain, from Burn Lake; “Burn Lake 4”

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

[metamorphesque]

— Anne Sexton, Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

[petaltexturedskies]

Marie Howe, from an interview ⟡

[philosophyquotes]

“Yes, be patient with me. My heart is heavy.”

— Albert Camus, The Possessed: A Play

[angelicdewdrop]

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

[loveridden1999]

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Sensible Thing

[journalofanobody]

“What was my mad heart dreaming of?”

— Sappho (Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments, trans. Aaron Poochigian)