July 6, 1920 Letters to Milena by Franz Kafka First published : 1952

Catherynne M. Valente, from her book titled "Deathless," originally published in March 2011

Nikolay Punin, from a diary entry featured in The Diaries of Nikolay Punin: 1904 - 1953

Georgia O’Keeffe, from a letter to Alfred Stieglitz featured in My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933

Mhairi McFarlane, Last Night

Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait in Letters

Sylvia Plath, in a diary entry dated 15 June 1951, from The Unabridged Journals

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

— John Geddes

Sylvia Plath, from “Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices”

— Faith Alexandria, Untitled Work

Edna St. Vincent Millay, from a poem titled "Interim," featured in The Complete Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay