Patricia A. McKillip, from her book titled "The Book of Atrix Wolfe," originally published in 1995

Julia de Burgos, from Song of the Simple Truth: Poems of Julia de Burgos; "Return To Me,"

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

Joan Didion, writing about the shock that followed after the death of her husband, John.

— John Muir, quoted in Samuel Hall Young‘s Alaska Days with John Muir 

Alex Dimitrov, “Poem Written in a Cab”, Love and Other Poems

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

Maggie Smith, “Wild”

Brian Cotnoir, from On Alchemy: Essential Practices and Making Art as Alchemy

Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

Gabrielle Calvocoressi, “No Poems Today,” in The New Economy

Monologue of Despair Penelope Alegria

— Makenzie Campbell, from a poem featured in "2 a.m. Thoughts," originally published in 2017 (via lunamonchtuna)

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

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

Vita Sackville-West, from her poem "In Memoriam: Virginia Woolf" published in The Observer on 6 April 1941

Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Jean-Paul Sartre, featured in Letters to Sartre