Just my pain

What I feel, What I want to show you

[petaltexturedskies]

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

[mournfulroses]

Maggie Smith, from a poem titled "Self-Portrait as an Incomplete List of Mysteries," featured in A Suit or a Suitcase: Poems

[mournfulroses]

Josh Malihabadi, from a poem titled "After Giving Excessive Grief," featured in Humsafar: The World of Urdu Poetry

[petaltexturedskies]

Emily Dickinson, in a letter to Louise and Frances Norcross, written c. October 1871

[mournfulroses]

Makenzie Campbell, from a poem featured in "2 a.m. Thoughts," originally published in 2017

[weltenwellen]

Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

[mournfulroses]

Else Fitzgerald, from "Everything Feels Like the End of The World," publ. in 2022

[shisasan]

August 30, 1927 The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf (1924-1941)

[onthelearningtongue]

[literaryvein]

L. V., excerpts from a past life

[literaryvein]

L. V., excerpts from a past life

[stay-close]

“I always look well when I’m near death.”

— Marguerite Gautier

[metamorphesque]

Chen Chen, How I Became Sagacious 

[kalbinellerinde-blog]

[stay-close]

“Sometimes, all you can do is lie in bed, and hope to fall asleep before you fall apart.”

— William C. Hannan

[pickypicnic]

[flowerytale]

Louise Glück, from "Persephone the Wanderer", Averno