Absurdity Everywhere

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vita Sackville-West, wr. c. February 1926

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vita Sackville-West wr. c. February 1926

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

Mahmoud Darwish, from The Adam of two Edens: Selected Poems; "Why Have You Left the Horse Alone?,"

—C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew

Emily Brontë, from "Wuthering Heights," originally published in 1847

[Text ID: “I want a poem I can grow old in. I want a poem I can die in.”]

Rainer Maria Rilke, from "Letters to a Young Poet," originally published in 1929

To love in a way that is unwavering. To love even when circumstances or feelings may lead one to wish it would fade or lessen. To love someone even if you’ll never see them again.

Jeanette Winterson, from "One Aladdin Two Lamps," originally published in November 2025

Text ID: I observe how much I have matured since last year despite my belief that I was losing myself, how something strong was born from the painful experiences survived and from the numerous minutes that I believed were wasted.

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

Czeslaw Milosz, from "Ars Poetica?"