unweighed down by passion or intensity

Rainer Maria Rilke, The Book of Images

tell me

Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Nelson Algren, featured in "A Transatlantic Love Affair,"

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment via starlightacademia

Yosano Akiko, from a poem featured in River of Stars: The Poetry of Yosano Akiko

Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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