Charles Bukowski

- Sylvia Plath, 1949 at the age of seventeen

Sylvia Plath, from "The Unabridged journals of Sylvia Plath"

[Text ID: “you want to be loved if only to prove it possible: to tell the world that someone saw you as a conquest & came back alive. that above all else, you are worthy of the risk, the effort. you want someone to serve you the evidence: (in italics) you are not as damned as you think you are. you are not as damned as you think you are (end italics)”. /End ID]

Mahmoud Darwish, from “Mural”, Mural

Kahlil Gibran, from Beloved Prophet: The love letters of Kahlil Gibran and Marry Haskell, and her private journal

WORKING FOR THE KNIFE - Mitski's Statement

― Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

—Lilllium, from In Place Of The Mirror is a Portait of You

Franz Kafka, The Diaries of Franz Kafka, 1910-1923

Charles Bukowski, Pulp