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Sylvia Plath, from a diary entry featured in The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Gordon Lameyer written c. July 1954, featured in Selected Letters

Sylvia Plath, from a diary entry featured in The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Ann Dvidow-Goodman written c. 1950, featured in The Collected Letters

Ōtomo no Sakanoue no Iratsume, from a poem titled "Like the sedge of sun-dominated Naniwa," featured in Japanese Women Poets: An Anthology

Marguerite Duras, from her book titled "Writing," originally published in September 1993

Jane Hirshfield, from a poem titled "Lake And Maple," featured in The Asking: New and Selected Poems

Juana de Ibarbourou, from a poem featured in Woman who has sprouted Wings; poems by contemporary Latin American Women Poets

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Margaret Llewyn Davis, featured in The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf

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

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

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

Text ID: What I want is your heart, the depths of / your eyes

Luis Peles Matos, from a poem titled "The Virtuous Sin," featured in Love Poems: from Spain & Spanish America

–  Mircea Cărtărescu, from “Let’s make Love”, translated by Adam J. Sorkin and Cristina Hanganu-Bresch 

[Text ID: “drenched in you, chanting your name.”]