Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Incest: A Jounal of Love; The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1947-1955

Angela Carter, from her novel titled "Wise Children," originally published in 1991

Schuyler Peck, Worth the Wait

Rafael Guillén, “Spouses” from I’m Speaking, tr. by Sandy McKinney

Fyodor Dostoevsky, tr. by Hugh Aplin, from "Poor People," originally written in 1846

Rainer Maria Rilke, from a letter featured in The Dark Interval: Letters on Death

Rainer Maria Rilke, from a letter featured in The Dark Interval: Letters on Death

March, 1933 The diary of Anaïs Nin [Volume One: 1931-1934]

Clarice Lispector, from "Too Much of Life Complete Chronicles," publ. in 2022

Anne Sexton, from “The Sermon of the Twelve Acknowledgements” in The Complete Poems

Ping Hsin, from a poem featured in Modern Chinese Poetry: Introduction

Alice Notley // Warsan Shire

𝙹𝚊𝚗𝚞𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝟸𝟹, 𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟸 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺-𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟹