Rainer Maria Rilke, tr. Edward Snow

the third man (1949) gothic (1986) europa 41 (1952) besieged (1998) a private life (2025) the spiral staircase (1945) uzumaki (2000)

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D. H. Lawrence, from The Selected Poems of D. H. Lawrence; “A Woman and her Dead Husband,”

Friedrich Nietzsche, from The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzche: “Thus Spoke Zarathustra,”

Odysseus Elytis, translated by Edmund Keeley, from "Marina of the Rocks,"

Stanley Kunitz, from a poem titled "Touch Me," featured in Passing Through: The Later Poems

Clarice Lispector, from a letter in translation to Tania Kauffman, featured in All Letters of Clarice Lispector

Catherynne M. Valente, from her book titled "Deathless," originally published in March 2011

Patricia A. McKillip, from her book titled "The Book of Atrix Wolfe," originally published in 1995

Wang Ch'ing-hui, from a poem titled "The River Is Red'," featured in Women Poets of China

Don’t you ever cross that bridge in your mind again (It’s like a movie screen)

Franz Kafka, from a letter to Grete Bloch written in 1914, featured in Letters To Felice