And then—you walked in.
You, with your glittering chaos.
The oracle who keeps unfolding
Can I still be good and want you?
What did you do as a child that made the hours pass like minutes? Herein lies the key to your earthly pursuits.
C.G. Jung
Samuel Beckett, letter to Morris Sinclair (March 4th, 1934), The Letters of Samuel Beckett, Vol. I: 1929-1940 [ID'd]
Clarice Lispector, from Água Viva; translated by Stefan Tobler
Text ID: All of me is writing to you and I feel the taste of being and the taste-of-you...
Franz Kafka, from a letter to Milena Jesenka featured in "Letters to Milena,"
"- being mental is complex / as hell. How do you keep track of your poems? Any- / one remembers what they like, but you have constantly / to emit them ..." -The Anthology by Alice Notley
Chris Abani, from "Terminus", 3 poems pub. Air Light Magazine [transcript in ALT]
Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, Vladimir Nabokov
meet the gardener
Sylvia Plath, from a letter featured in The Letters of Sylvia Plath Vol. 1: 1940-1956
Banana Yoshimoto, from her novel titled "The Premonition," originally published in 2015