Marcel Proust, from a story featured in "The Complete Short Stories of Marcel Proust," originally published in 2001

beth cavener, humiliation by design, 2009

Ada Limón, The Quiet Machine

Text ID: I observe how much I have matured since last year despite my belief that I was losing myself, how something strong was born from the painful experiences survived and from the numerous minutes that I believed were wasted.

Painting by Isaac Fuller (c. 1620-1672), sold at Christie’s in 2021 under the title “Portrait of a gentleman, bust-length, with a further portrait beneath”.

Rothko / On Fear by Ollie Cowley

— Albert Camus, from his preface to Jean Grenier’s “Les Iles,” c. 1959

Félix Thiollier (Emma Thiollier, daughter of the photographer) 1895-1905

The Long and Short of It, Richard Siken

Arturo Kameya.

Kim Addonizio, from "Onset"

Dorothea Lange, Tractored Out, Childress County, Texas, 1938

— From Poetry Is Not a Luxury (1985)  by Audre Lorde

Worm Moon by Mary Oliver