unweighed down by passion or intensity

Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer written in 1912, featured in Letters To Felice

Novalis, tr. by Mabel Cotterell, from Selected Writings; “Hymns To The Night,”

Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

Julia de Burgos, from a poem titled "That You Love Me," featured in Song of the Simple Truth: Poems

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

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

Sonya Vatomsky, from a poem titled "Spring Flowers," featured in Salt Is for Curing, publ. in 2015

Salma Deera, from a poem titled "War and Words," featured in Letters from Medea: Poems

Nikos Kazantzakis, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis

Vikram Seeth, from All You Who Sleep Tonight: Poems; “Adagio”

J. M. Grosvalet, from her book titled "Sugar Spells," originally published in 2025

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in The Early Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 3. (1923-1927)

[Text ID: “How do I stop / carrying everything / that had ever / happened to me?”]

Juliette Drouet, from a letter to Victor Hugo, featured in My Beloved Toto: Letters