Longing-knight

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

Anna Akhmatova, from a poem titled "White Flock," featured in An Anthology of Contemporary Russian Women Poets

Ema Saikō, from a poem titled "Forbidding My Sister Sake," featured in Japanese Women Poets: An Anthology

Ōtomo no Sakanoue no Iratsume, from a poem titled "Envoi," featured in Japanese Women Poets: An Anthology

Empress Jitō, from a poem titled "The Empress's Song," featured in Japanese Women Poets: An Anthology

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky, from a letter featured in Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoevsky to his Family & Friends

Franz Kafka, from a letter to Milena Jesenka featured in "Letters to Milena," originally published in 1952

Paul Verlaine, from a poem titled "Lover's Chat", featured in 100 and One Poems by Paul Verlaine

Edna St. Vincent Millay, from a poem titled "Interim," featured in The Complete Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay

Artist: David Altmejd

Nikolay Punin, from a diary entry featured in The Diaries of Nikolay Punin: 1904 - 1953

Zinaida Nikolaevna Gippius, from a diary entry featured in The Selected Diaries of Zinaida Nikolaevna Gippius