[mournfulroses]

Oscar Wilde, from a letter to Carlos Blacker written in July 12 1897, featured in A Life In Letters

[shisasan]

𝙹𝚞𝚕𝚢 𝟸𝟷, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟹 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟶 -𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟹

[ID: I cannot sleep. Only dreams, no sleep. END ID]

[mournfulroses]

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

[oncce-againn]

one thing about me is that i noticed

[mournfulroses]

Natalie Diaz, from a poem titled "September 2001," featured in The World Keeps Ending And The World Goes On

[mournfulroses]

Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer written in 1913, featured in Letters To Felice

[mournfulroses]

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Trapeze: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1947-1955

[lifeinpoetry]

“I want to love something. / I want to love something without having to apologize for it. Please don’t tell.”

— Hala Alyan, from “I’m Not Speaking First,” The Twenty-Ninth Year

[mournfulroses]

Ema Saikō, from a poem titled "Mother's Death," featured in Japanese Women Poets: An Anthology

[literaryvein]

L. V., excerpts from a past life

[shisasan]

𝙼𝚊𝚢 𝟸𝟽, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺-𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟹

[shisasan]

June 2, 1913 Letters to Felice by Franz Kafka First published : 1973

[sidneysheldon]

Sidney Sheldon, “Nothing Lasts Forever”

[sidneysheldon]

Sidney Sheldon, “The Stars Shine Down”

[mournfulroses]

Nikos Kazantzakis, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis

[mournfulroses]

Catherynne M. Valente, from her novel titled "Deathless," originally published in 2011

[shisasan]

𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚗 𝙷𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚎, 𝚂𝚒𝚍𝚍𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚑𝚊 (𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟸)