{Words by Anaïs Nin, from The Diary Of Anais Nin, Vol. 4 (1944-1947) / Cynthia Cruz from diagnosis,The glimmering room}

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[text ID: aside from myself, there was no sign of me]

Text ID: So, I thought I had to become more than / I was, more than I'd been. / but that wasn't it. It seemed rather that / something had to go. Something had to / be let go of.

Interview with Clarice Lispector - São Paulo, 1977

— Mary Oliver, from Of Power And Time in “Blue Pastures”

– Anna Kavan, from “The Birthmark,” Asylum Piece and Other Stories (Peter Owen, 1972)

– Aimee Parkison, from “Locked Doors,” The Innocent Party: Stories (BOA Editions, 2012)

Self-Portrait of the Cuckoo in Her Labyrinth of Wonder, Safiya Sinclair

– Cesare Pavese, from “The Idol,” The Leather Jacket: Stories (Quartet Books, 1980)

— Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Aurelia Plath written c. August 1951 (via echymosis)

Sylvia Plath, from “Letters Home”

Anaïs Nin, from Fire: From “A Journal of Love”: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934–1937.

-William Wordsworth

Archilochos translated by Anne Carson, in “Eros the Bittersweet”

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Civil Service, Claire Schwartz