Mother, give me the sun

— Clarice Lispector, from The Complete Stories: “The Foreign Legion,”

Clarice Lispector, from The Complete Stories: “The Crime Of The Mathematics Professor,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

— Ingeborg Bachmann, select lines from “My Bird,” In the Storm of Roses: Selected Poems by Ingeborg Bachmann, translated, edited and introduced by Mark Anderson (Princeton University Press, 1986)

Louise Glück, from “Mutable Earth” (via theclassicsreader)

James Wright, from a letter to Anne Sexton written c. February 1961

Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares written c. July 1949

“Single motion which departed, leading itself by the hand.” –Anne Carson, Nox

Sophocles, Elektra (trans. Anne Carson)

Alice Notley, from In The Pines: Poems; “In The Pines,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

Anne Carson, “The Wishing Jewel: Introduction to Water Margins,” The Anthropology of Water, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry (via lifeinpoetry)

–Anne Carson, Nox