#selections

[mournfulroses]

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry written c. October 1936, featured in The Diary of Anaïs Nin Vol. 2

[feral-ballad]

Susan Abulhawa, from Against the Loveless World: A Novel

[Text ID: “I wanted to be chosen, maybe loved. I wanted out of my life, out of my skin,”]

[fairydrowning]

"People empty me. I have to get away to refill."

– Charles Bukowski

[syringavulgaris]

Mary Soon Lee, from Elemental Haiku: Poems to Honor the Periodic Table, Three Lines at a Time

[wedarkacademia]

[waitinqroom]

we return to, and redefine the same, tragic stories. ocean vuong / ithell colquhoun / mary oliver

[mournfulroses]

Federico García Lorca, from "3 Tragedies; Blood Wedding, Yerma, Bernarda Alta,"

[mournfulroses]

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry written c. October 1936, featured in The Diary of Anaïs Nin Vol. 2

[mournfulroses]

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Violet Dickinson written c. May 1908 featured in The Letters of Virginia Woolf

[mournfulroses]

Alexander Blok, from a poem titled "Snow Wine," featured in The Twelve & Other Poems

[mournfulroses]

Alexander Blok, from a poem titled "O What Is Setting Sun's Radiance To Me," featured in The Twelve & Other Poems

[mournfulroses]

Mahmoud Darwish, from The Adam of two Edens: Selected Poems; "I See What I Want To See,"

[mournfulroses]

Federico García Lorca, from "3 Tragedies; Blood Wedding, Yerma, Bernarda Alta,"

[mournfulroses]

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry written c. October 1936, featured in The Diary of Anaïs Nin Vol. 2

[mournfulroses]

Federico García Lorca, from "3 Tragedies; Blood Wedding, Yerma, Bernarda Alta,"

[mournfulroses]

Alexander Blok, from a poem titled "Russia," featured in The Twelve & Other Poems