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"What are the hands, but gods pulsing with red sugar?"

Natalie Diaz, from The Hand Has Twenty-Seven Bones — : These Hands If Not Gods

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"I love. Incandescently."

Ingeborg Bachmann, from Darkness Spoken: The Collected Poems; “Days in White”

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"I'm waiting... I'm not sure what for-"

Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Jean-Paul Sartre (Paris, Tuesday 12 September 1939)

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"And the way the rain comes down hard. That's how I feel inside."

Robert Smith lyrics, Open

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"I am glad the rain is coming down hard. It's the way I feel inside."

Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

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"The loneliness comes and goes, but the blue holds."

John Koethe, from “The Late Wisconsin Spring”, North Point North: New and Selected Poems

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"I had already belonged to him before a word was said."

Ingeborg Bachmann, from Malina

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"Memory has a curtain that smothers me."

Adonis, tr. by Khaled Mattawa, Selected Poems

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Alejandra Pizarnik, tr. by Yvette Siegert, from “Psychopathology Ward”, Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972

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I kneel to the sanctities of my vocation—writing and fasting are not so dissimilar inasmuch the emptying is as satisfying as the penance.

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"Stunned by her intensity."

The Too-Perfect Saint, S01E05

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sorry for being weird, the loneliness and the need for a deeper, more meaningful human connection is eating me alive

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All it ever does is rain, Christophe Jarcot

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i’ve died alone in my room 3000 times nothing you can say can hurt me.

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I TRIED TO CONVERT A NON-FUNCTIONING VIDEO IN VEGAS AND IT FUCKED UP

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We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and others.

–Albert Camus

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Paul Celan, from “Threadsuns,” from BREATHTURN INTO TIMESTEAD: THE COLLECTED LATER POETRY A BILINGUAL EDITION (translated by Pierre Joris)