— From Perpetual Motion by Tony Hoagland

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

— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath, aged 26, NOTEBOOK, from "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath" (dated January 3, 1959)

Sarvat Hasin, from her book tited "Strange Girls," originally published in March 2026

Marina Tsvetaeva, from a poem titled "When it’s unbearable," (edited) featured in Moscow in the Plague Years: Poems

— Salvatore Quasimodo, tr. by Manolis Aligizakis, from “Song Of Apollyon,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

Anton Chekhov, from a diary entry featured in “The Notebook of Anton Chekhov,”

[ID:  M The heat is going out of me.  C The heart is going out of me.  B I feel nothing, nothing.  I feel nothing.]

Wildness Before Something Sublime Leila Chatti

Federico García Lorca, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Federico García Lorca

— María Casares, from a letter to Albert Camus written c. March 1952

Wildness Before Something Sublime Leila Chatti