Call Me Icarus

Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

Franz Kafka, quoted in "Kafka in Love," by Jacqueline Raoul-Duval, published in 2011

Marcel Proust, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Marcel Proust

Shen Yueh, translated by Kenneth Rexroth, from "Farewell to Fan Yun at an Ch'eng,"

Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959 (my translation)

-Jess Resem

— Khalil Gibran

Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Jean-Paul Sartre, featured in Letters to Sartre

Dylan Thomas, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Dylan Thomas

Rainer Maria Rilke, from The Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke; "You See, I Desire a Lot,"

Janet Fitch, from her novel titled "White Oleander," originally published in 1999

— Winter, 1996. 

Joaquín Nin, from a letter to Anaïs Nin, featured in Reunited: The Correspondence of Anais and Joaquin Nin, 1933-1940

Anaïs Nin, from diary entry featured in A Journal of Love; The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin