Willem Dafoe

Czesław Miłosz, from “Yellow Bicycle.”

Warsan Shire, from “Hooyo Isn't Home”, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

[Text ID: “Half daughter, / half apology, all fire and the wrong kind of love.”]

[Text ID: “I am trying to stop doing / things that don’t make any sense. Body, / forgive me. I am trying. I am trying. I am still trying.]

— Susan Sontag, from “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963”

— Martha Gellhorn, from a letter to Stanley Pennell

Comet Leonard

Monet's Garden, Giverny, France ( via )

Linda Gregg, from “I Thought on His Desire for Three Days” [ID in alt text]

𝚂𝚎𝚙𝚝𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟽, 𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟾 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚢 𝚍𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚘𝚏 𝙰𝚗𝚊𝚒̈𝚜 𝙽𝚒𝚗, 𝟷𝟿𝟶𝟹-𝟷𝟿𝟽𝟽

― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

Romeo and Juliet. Act II, Scene VI.

Edgar Allan Poe

[Text ID: “The trembling, yearning stars, that cannot speak”]

—Oscar Wilde

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

— Sylvia Plath, from Three Women in “The Collected Poems Of Sylvia Plath”