Don't Leave

— James Baldwin, They Can’t Turn Back

Berkshire Landscape by Tim Flach (2008)

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

rainer maria rilke, letters to a young poet

June 3, 1897 Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: a love story in letters (1897-1926)

“What Carries Us”, Emily Jungmin Yoon

Late Spring, Mary Oliver

Marguerite Duras home in Neauphle-le-Chateau.

— Rainer Maria Rilke, “XXI,”  in Sonnets to Orpheus  (Part One)

Mary Oliver, from "Such Singing in the Wild Branches"

— James Joyce, from “The Dead,” Dubliners (Oxford University Press, 2001)

— Spring, Edna St. Vincent Millay

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vanessa Bell, featured in The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf

The final lines of “The Dead”. Among the most powerful and haunting passages in modernist literature.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés, from Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype.

— Ursula K. Le Guin – The Left Hand of Darkness (1969, p. 212)