To The Desert, Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“you will never be too much for someone who can’t get enough of you”

— Unknown

Louise Glück, from Faithful and Virtuous Night: Poems; "A Foreshortened Journey,"

Trista Mateer, from "Aphrodite Made Me Do It," originally published in 2019

Henri Cole, from a poem titled "Twilight," featured in A Century of Poetry in the New Yorker

Anna de Noailles, from "Tranquility" in Poems

— Lina A.

Anne Sexton, from a letter featured in Anne Sexton; A Self-Portrait In Letters

Martha Gellhorn, from a letter to Robert Sherrod featured in The Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn

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