Mary Oliver, from “The Gardener” in A Thousand Mornings

Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry written c. September 1940, from The Diary of Virginia Woolf Vol. V: 1936-1941

Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait in Letters ⁠— Brother Dennis Farrell, 28th March 1963

—Mary Oliver, "Have You Ever Tried to Enter The Long Black Branches"

—Margaret Atwood, “Notes Towards a Poem that Can Never Be Written”, from Selected Poems II (1976-1986)

After twelve days of rain by Dorianne Laux

Stephen Vincent Benét (b. 22 July 1898)

They spoke, the fifth day, of silence.

Sylvia Plath, from a diary entry featured in The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

Nayyirah Waheed

Mary Oliver, “The Sun” in Devotions

Christopher Citro, from “The Hay Out There and the Hay in You”

Mary Oliver, from “August,” in featured in Poetry (August 1993)

Sylvia Plath, Letters of Sylvia Plath Vol. II: 1956-1963

Anne Sexton, from "The Fury of Sundays" in The Complete Poems

Paul Celan, from “Flower,” from Poetry (December 1971)