Venus

Simone de Beauvoir, from a diary entry featured in Diary of a Philosophy Student

— Jay Vespertine; not from a book but from an actual conversation.

— Jay Vespertine; not from a book but from an actual conversation.

— Jay Vespertine; not from a book but from an actual conversation.

Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer, featured in "Letters to Felice,"

- D.Deane

— Jay Vespertine (Inspired from Caitlyn Siehl)

Lola Ridge, “A Worn Rose”

Sara Teasdale, “Sappho I”

— diksha suman (moon poet)

May Sarton, from Recovering: A Journal [ID in alt text]

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Franz Kafka, from a diary entry featured in "The Diaries of Franz Kafka,"

L'éternelle idole, 1889

— Mary Oliver, from The Gardener (via lunamonchtuna)