Quotes & Questions

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—Franz Kafka, "The Diaries" (from the travel diaries, 1912)

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—Gertrude Stein, “Book 3: Helen” from Q.E.D; or, Things as They Are

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—Fernando Pessoa, "The Book of Disquiet"

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—Margaret Atwood, “CIRCE/MUD POEMS”, from Selected Poems (1965-1975)

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—Rainer Maria Rilke, "The Ninth Elegy"

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—Audre Lorde, "The Cancer Journals"

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Walt Whitman, from the poetry collection, "Leaves of Grass"

[bitesizedpoetry]

Sylvia Plath, "Three Women"

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—Vincent van Gogh, in a letter to Theo, his brother (Arles, c. 9 July 1888)

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—Anaïs Nin, "The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934"

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from Franz Kafka's "Letters to Felice"

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—Virginia Woolf, "To the Lighthouse"

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—Sylvia Plath, "The Bell Jar"

[bitesizedpoetry]

Sylvia Plath, "Mystic"

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Into the World’s Great Heart: Selected Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay

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from Franz Kafka's "Letters to Felice"

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from the "Complete Poems and Selected Letters of Michelangelo"