Marina Tsvetaeva, excerpt from "Poem of the End"
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Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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“Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.”
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Herman Hesse
Narcissus and Goldmund
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Absence knifes open my heart.
— Mirabai, Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems, transl by Robert Bly & Jane Hirshfield, (2004)
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“It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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Sylvia Plath, from Mad Girl's Love Song: A Villanelle written c. 1954
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Adam Hall ~ “Hair Line Cracks” - Oil on Panel 40 x 60
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E. M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born, tr. Richard Howard
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Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
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Anne Carson, The Glass Essay
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that craving for darkness, / the lust to feel what it does to you
Margaret Atwood, Interlunar; from ‘Eating Snake’
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“And no one else remembers Except the moon and I.”
— Rolan Leighton, excerpt of Clair de Lune (via lesgardenias)
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My spine is soft like wax near the flame of the candle. I dream; I dream.
Virginia Woolf, from The Waves
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Anne Sexton, from a letter featured in Anne Sexton; A Self-Portrait In Letters
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