'things there are no words for, but should be', tatheve simonyan

Mieko Kawakami, from 'Heaven'

L. V., conversations in the dark

Theodore Roethke, from a poem titled "The Dream," featured in Love Is Like The Lion's Tooth: An Anthology of Love Poems

Sylvia Plath, in a diary entry dated 20 June 1959, from The Unabridged Journals

Clarice Lispector, from “Gertrudes asks for advice” in The Complete Stories

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

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

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

mary oliver, staying alive

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

Margaret Atwood, from an essay featured in "In Other Worlds," originally published in 2011

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

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

Wildness Before Something Sublime Leila Chatti

Mu Xin, from a poem titled "After The Sleigh Incident," featured in A century of modern Chinese poetry : an anthology

Albert Camus, from his novel titled "The Fall," originally published in 1956