Quotes & Questions

—Franz Kafka, "The Diaries" (from the travel diaries, 1912)

—Richard Siken, "Self-Portrait Against Red Wallpaper"

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

—Richard Siken, "Self-Portrait Against Red Wallpaper"

—Franz Kafka, "The Diaries" (1910)

—Anaïs Nin, "The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934"

from "Oscar Wilde: A Life in Letters"

—Gertrude Stein, “Book 3: Helen” from Q.E.D; or, Things as They Are

—Fernando Pessoa, "The Book of Disquiet"

—Margaret Atwood, “CIRCE/MUD POEMS”, from Selected Poems (1965-1975)

—Rainer Maria Rilke, "The Ninth Elegy"

—Audre Lorde, "The Cancer Journals"

Walt Whitman, from the poetry collection, "Leaves of Grass"

—Vincent van Gogh, in a letter to Theo, his brother (Arles, c. 9 July 1888)

—Anaïs Nin, "The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934"