Ocean Vuong, from On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Georgia O’Keeffe, from a letter to Alfred Stieglitz featured in My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933

Edna St. Vincent Millay, from a poem titled "Interim," featured in The Complete Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

Paul Verlaine, from a poem titled "Lover's Chat", featured in 100 and One Poems by Paul Verlaine

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

source / Haverst

Rati Saxena, from a poem titled "Mountain Nights," featured in Not a muse : the inner lives of women : a world poetry anthology

Marina Tsvetaeva, from a letter to Boris Pasternak featured in Letters, Summer 1926

Lidia Yuknavitch, from The Chronology Of Water: A Memoir

before sunrise (1995)