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Joy Sullivan, from “These Days People Are Really Selling Me On California”, Instructions for Traveling West

Tracy K. Smith, from “Don’t You Wonder, Sometimes?”, Life on Mars

Chasing the fog somewhere in Switzerland by @90377

Christa Wolf, from her essay collection titled "One Day a Year: 1960–2000," originally published in 2003

Boris Pasternak, from a letter to Marina Tsvetaeva featured in Letters, Summer 1926

Trista Mateer, from a poem featured in her collection titled The Dogs I Have Kissed

Marina Tsvetaeva, from a letter to Boris Pasternak featured in Letters, Summer 1926

Margaret Atwood, from a journal entry featured in Early Essays & Journals

— Albert Camus, The Misunderstanding

Christa Wolf, from her novel titled "Cassandra," originally published in 1983

Jeanette Winterson, from Written on the Body / Mary Oliver, from The Pond / poem titled An August Longing by Amber Khanzadeh / August by Taylor Swift.

Being sensitive is a strength—it means you feel deeply. But unkindness? That’s a choice, and a sad one.