Ivan Bunin, from Sunstroke: The Selected Stories of Ivan Bunin; "Zoyka and Valeriya,"

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, from "The Complete Novels of Mary Shelly,"

Virginia Woolf, from her novel titled "The Waves," originally published in 1931

This sky orb is not an edit, it’s the clearest picture of VENUS ! The Venus planet (infrared) looks like a chaotic dawn or sunset sky. Images: July 2024, Japanese Akatsuki space probe (for real, not from Naruto: Akatsuki means “DAWN”).

— Lina A.

— Kait Rokowski, from "The Civil Guillotine" in So Much For the Mercy Kill

Maya C. Popa, from Wound is the Origin of Wonder: Poems: “All inner life runs at some delay”

James Baldwin, from Another Country [ID'd]

Emily Brontë, from "Wuthering Heights," originally published in 1847

—Fyodor Dostoevsky

Sayat Nova, from Anthology of Armenian Poetry, ed. & tr. by Diana Der Hovanessian and Marzbed Margossian; "I traveled the world"

— Jay Vespertine (via letsbelonelytogetherr)