Lisel Mueller, fragment from the poem "The Escape" — The Need to Hold Still: Collected Poems

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

Endless, Edie Medley

Fyodor Dostoevsky, from a letter featured in Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoevsky to his Family & Friends

Delmira Agustini, from “The Ineffable” in Cantos de la mañana (originally published in 1910)

—May Sarton, "In Time Like Air"

Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

Charles Baudelaire, from a letter to Caroline Aupick featured in The Selected Letters of Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil

— Anaïs Nin.

© Jean-Louis Losi, ADAGP, Paris, 2025. Courtesy Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Paris-Lisbonne. Private collection

Vierge bleue (1934) / Portrait de Madame M. (1932) by Tamara de Lempicka

July 21, 1920 Letters to Milena by Franz Kafka First published : 1952