[weltenwellen]

Joy Sullivan, from “These Days People Are Really Selling Me On California”, Instructions for Traveling West

[weltenwellen]

Tracy K. Smith, from “Don’t You Wonder, Sometimes?”, Life on Mars

[aseaofquotes]

Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

[weltenwellen]

Virginia Woolf, 15th of October 1927, Diaries

[weltenwellen]

Czeslaw Milosz, New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001

[weltenwellen]

Danez Smith, from "alive", Bluff

[soracities]

Marina Tsvetaeva, from "Bus", Selected Poems (trans. Elaine Feinstein, with Simon Franklin) [ID'd]

[mournfulroses]

Nina Mclaughlin, from "Wake, Siren," originally published in November 2019

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Nicole Lyons

[half-a-corpse-half-a-poet]

-Margaret Atwood, Selected Poems 1: 1965-1975

[dionyrtal]

Vertigo Peaks by Dion Anja 2. Return II by Dean Gioia

[petaltexturedskies]

Clarice Lispector, from "Miss Algrave" in Soulstorm: Stories

[feral-ballad]

Nader Naderpour, tr. by Niloufar Talebi, from Belonging: New Poetry by Iranians Around the World; "Conversation in the dark"

[Text ID: “petrified of something I can’t name,”]

[mournfulroses]

Gustave Flaubert, from a notebook entry featured in Intimate Notebook, 1840-1841

[thepersonalwords]

“I understood myself only after I destroyed myself. And only in the process of fixing myself did I know who I really was.” - Sade Andria Zabala

—

[weltenwellen]

 Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning

[flowerytale]

The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1920–1923

[deviika]

Fydoror Dostoevsky // Clarice Lispector