hothouse flower

Nikos Kazantzakis, from a letter to Andonis Anemoyannis, 1902

not at each other, but in the same direction.”]

[Text ID: “I knew that, despite everything, I was loved. I was loved hard. At once and forever against the loveless world.”]

Jeanette Winterson, from The Stone Gods

Jeanette Winterson, from The Stone Gods

Marina Tsvetaeva, from "No one has taken anything away", Selected Poems

Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Mary Bowles

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Lytton Strachey (September 1925)

Franz Kafka, from “Diaries, 1910-1923”

Anne Carson, from The Glass Essay

[ID: That summer I did not go crazy / but I wore / very close / very close / to the bone.]

august you are so gentle to me

The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1944–1947