Detail of a fruit-bearing tree from the Great Palace Mosaics. Culture: Early Byzantine. Date: c. 6th century AD (Justinian I era). Medium: Floor mosaic featuring limestone, terracotta, and glass tesserae. Collection: Great Palace Mosaic Museum, Istanbul, Turkey. Photo licensed by me.

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

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

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Virginia Woolf, in a letter to Edward Sackville-West, written c. September 1926, from The letters of Virginia Woolf : Vol. III, 1923-1928

Sylvia Plath, from a letter to her mother Aurelia, written c. August 1954, from Letters Home: Correspondence 1950-1963

— Åsa Larsson (b. 28 June 1966)

Anne Sexton, from "The Fury of Sundays" in The Complete Poems

— Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem