— Edna St. Vincent Millay, from a letter to Arthur Davison Ficke

Natalie Díaz, from “American Arithmetic”, Postcolonial Love Poem (2020)

Khalil Gibran

Erika L. Sánchez, from Lessons on Expulsion: Poems; “Amá”

[Text ID: “Ask nature what love is. / Silence is answer enough.”]

— Clarice Lispector, from “The Hour of the Star.”

— Nelly Sachs, from “The Seeker.”

December 1, 1928 The early diary of Anaïs Nin, 1903-1977

[Text ID: into that November dark.]

Mary Oliver, from “Marengo.” [ID in alt text]

~ Courtney Peppernell

[Text ID: “ to stand(alone)in some autumnal afternoon: breathing a fatal stillness;”]

[Text ID: “October, crisp, misty, golden October, when the light is sweet and heavy.”]

Franz Kafka, from “Diaries, 1910-1923”

[Text ID: “How do I stop / carrying everything / that had ever / happened to me?”]

- Beau Taplin

— Rainer Maria Rilke, transl. by J.B Leishman, from Poems 1906 to 1926 (New Directions Books, 1957)