[petaltexturedskies]

May Sarton, The Poetry of May Sarton

[soracities]

Virginia Woolf, The Waves

[Text ID: “(let us be trivial, let us be intimate).”]

[literaryvein]

L. V., excerpts from a past life

[luthienne]

“…but the truth is I am terribly weak. And I crave the balm of beautiful and soft things.”

— Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Linotte: The Early Diary Of   Anaïs Nin (1914-1920)

[nonalimmen]

“Night is breathing close to us, dark, soft.”

— Denise Levertov, from Life in the Forest: Poems; “Sunset, Somerville,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

[mournfulroses]

Martha Gellhorn, from a letter to David Gurewitsch featured in The Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn

[metamorphesque]

In Praise of Boredom, Joseph Brodsky

[mournfulroses]

J. M. Grosvalet, from her book titled "Sugar Spells," originally published in 2025

[coffee-quotes]

Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin (1939-1947)

[mournfulroses]

Juliette Drouet, from a letter to Victor Hugo, featured in My Beloved Toto: Letters

[letterful]

[mournfulroses]

Kim Addonizio, from What Is This Thing Called Love: Poems; "''Round Midnight,"

[mournfulroses]

May Sarton, from a diary entry featured in "Journal of a Solitude," originally published in 1973

[mournfulroses]

Rosa Chacel, from a diary entry featured in Diario, originally published in 1993

[lamignonette]

[mournfulroses]

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

[free-my-mindd]

-Anaïs Nin, 1939