most of all, i want to be kind

anna pavlova in the garden of her home “ivy house” in golders green outside london with her pet swan jack .

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in The Diary of Anaïs Nin Volume 1 1931-1934

The statue of Diana comes to life, puts an arrow in her bow and aims at Avenant. La Belle et la Bête, 1946

Louise Glück, from ""Averno", Averno

Trista Mateer, from "Aphrodite Made Me Do It," originally published in 2024

(not mine)

﹙ Text ID: I’ll cry about this earth in heaven too.﹚

Julia Armfield, from "The Great Awake" [ID in ALT]

Rachel McKibbens, from Blud; “poem written with a sawed-off typewriter”

ONLY YOU CAN LET IT IN

Ellen Von Unwerth: Cat Whisperer (2012)

— Carol Rifka Brunt in Tell The Wolves I'm Home

Sanna Wani, “Who is the Sun, Asking for Sleep?”, My Grief, the Sun // Brenna Twohy, A Coworker Asks Me If I Am Sad, Still