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Text me when the ache of my absence stirs your heart.
Joy Sullivan, “The Electrician Sings "Easy Love" in the Kitchen While Fixing My Light”, Instructions for Traveling West
Prageeta Sharma, “I Am Learning to Find the Horizons of Peace”, You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World
Lidia Yuknavitch, from Reading the Waves: A Memoir published in 2025
Feelings are just visitors, let them come and go.
Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, Book 1 “Inferno,” Canto 5 [tr. James (2013)]
— Richard Siken, Portrait of Fryderyk in Shifting Light (via letsbelonelytogetherr)
May, 1936 Journals of Anais Nin 1934-1939 [volume 2]
Anne Sexton, from The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton; "Briar Rose,"
3 May, 1937 Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov
16 April, 1939 Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov
Nikos Kazantzakis, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, from "The Complete Novels of Mary Shelly,"
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, from a letter to Percy Bysshe Shelley, featured in The Letters of Mary Shelley
5 May, 1937 Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov
2 April, 1937 Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov
Henri Cole, from a poem titled "Twilight," featured in A Century of Poetry in the New Yorker
To the Desert, Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Mahmoud Darwish, from The Butterfly's Burden; "Maybe, Because Winter Is Late,"
Nikos Kazantzakis, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis
Simone de Beauvoir, from a diary entry featured in Diary of a Philosophy Student
Henri Cole, from a poem titled "Twilight," featured in A Century of Poetry in the New Yorker
Simone de Beauvoir, from a diary entry featured in Diary of a Philosophy Student