words, words, words.

The Illustrated Edgar Allan Poe by Satty (1976)

GERARD DUBOIS Moby Dick

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

- Beau Taplin

Susan Sontag, from “The Dummy”, featured in I, Etcetera: Stories

-William Wordsworth

[text ID: Is there no way out of the mind?]

jane hirshfield

— Sun Yung Shin, from “Behind This Door Is a Siberian Tiger,” The Wet Hex

Ocean Vuong, from “Skinny Dipping”, Time Is a Mother

I couldn’t sleep until I drew this

Donald Duclow, The Hungers of Hadewijch and Eckhart

[text ID: I knew that it was cruel to be so optimistic, but, in my solitude, I couldn't resist the urge and spent entire days basking in idiotic fantasies, sometimes verging on prayer.]

Virginia Woolf, from To the Lighthouse Susan Sontag, from Reborn: Early Diaries 1947-1963

[Text ID: “Forgive me this old / habit. There is a danger / in making suffering / beautiful.”]