poetry and writings

Edna St. Vincent Millay, in a letter to her mother Cora, from Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay (written by Nancy Milford)

VIDYĀPATI (विद्यापति) — Love Songs of Vidyapati [Ed. W. G. Archer], transl. by Deben Bhattacharya, (1970)

Charles Baudelaire, “Head Of Hair”

— Ernest Hemingway

Anaïs Nin, Nearer the Moon: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1937-1939

Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out

Vladimir Nabokov, in a letter to Vera Slonim, written c. January 1924 featured in Letters to Véra

— Margaret Atwood, from Half-Hanged Mary in “Morning In The Burned House” (via adrasteiax)

— Raine Cooper

— Louise Gluck, from “Persephone’s Song”

"The Brothers Karamazov", Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Constance Garnett)

Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus

from Mary Shelley’s journal, February 25, 1822

Anne Michaels, from "Correspondences: Poems and Portraits," originally published in 2013

𝙽𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟷𝟿, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟹 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟶-𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟹

— Ernest Hemingway

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