le vague dans l’âme

Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Ann Davidow-Goodman written c. 1951, featured in The Collected Letters

it's hard to capture the scale but runs the height of two full stories of the museum. the text runs from the top to the bottom. it is displayed in english, Spanish and Basque. it tells stories about AIDS using poetic devices. I sat there for a full half hour just staring at it

— Orson Scott Card

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned (1934)

from "Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin (1939-1947)"

Sylvia Plath, Letters of Sylvia Plath Vol. I: 1940-1956

A selfish act

A detail from the 1847 marble sculpture "Woman Bitten by a Serpent" (Femme piquée par un serpent) by French sculptor Auguste Clésinger.