You know I have never really loved nobody but you

[mournfulroses]

Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Gordon Lameyer written c. 1953, featured in The Collected Letters

[mournfulroses]

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

[radical-revolution]

[radical-revolution]

[mournfulroses]

Marcel Proust, from a letter to Antoine Bibesco featured in The Selected Letters of Marcel Proust

[radical-revolution]

[pup-purgatory]

via

[mournfulroses]

Izumi Shikibu, from a poem featured in Japanese Poetic Diaries; The Diary of Izumi Shikibu

[mournfulroses]

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

[sacredwhores]

Natalia Motuzko - The Voice of Grass (1992)

[philosophybits]

“No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession.”

— Albert Camus, The Rebel

[anxietyproblem]

[mournfulroses]

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

[nevver]

Last light, Mary Mattingly

[mournfulroses]

Ada Limón, , from a poem titled "Thirteen Feral Cats," featured in Startlement: New and Selected Poems

[weltenwellen]

Alex Dimitrov, “Poem Written in a Cab”, Love and Other Poems

[mournfulroses]

Julia de Burgos, from Song of the Simple Truth: Poems of Julia de Burgos; "Return To Me,"