Rafael Alberti, translated by Kenneth Rexroth, from "Homecoming Love in the Midst of the Sea,"

Virginia Woolf, from her novel titled "The Waves," originally published in 1931

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vanessa Bell written c. August 1908

1. first elegy from the duine elegies, by rilke / 2 & 3. the secret history by donna tartt / 4. água viva by clarice lispector / 5. the brothers karamazov by dostoyevsky

{quotes:Mary Ruefle/uk/Francis Forever Song by Mitski/The Hand Has Twenty-Seven Bones by Natalie Diaz/Hélène Cixous, from “Olivier De Serres- A Single Passion Two Witnesses,” Love Itself: In the Letter Box (Polity Press, 2008) /uk /Saadi Youssef, from ‘Solos on the Oud’, Without an Alphabet, Without a Face: Selected Poems (trans. Khaled Mattawa) }

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Rebecca Perry, Beauty/Beauty; from 'Kintsugi 金継ぎ'

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own [originally published 1929]

— Vladimir Nabokov, Gods ("The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov")

Virginia Woolf, from The Waves

- Margaret Atwood, from 'Eurydice: Selected Poems 1976-1986'

— Miguel Hernández, from Selected Poems “Hunger is the Most Important Thing.”