Anais Nin, Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1939-1947
[ID: excerpt from ‘The Glass Essay,’ Anne Carson
“Soul is the place, stretched like a surface of millstone grit between body and mind, where such necessity grinds itself out.
Soul is what I kept watch on all that night.”]
Paulo Coelho
Jack Gilbert, from “A Walk Blossoming,” Refusing Heaven: Poems
Henrik Ibsen, from The Complete Works and Selected Writings; “Catiline,”
Hermann Hesse, from The Complete Fairy Tales; “A Dream Sequence,”
Cynthia Arrieu-King, from “Everybody Believes They Are the Good Guy,” published in Poetry
Alexander Pushkin, tr. by Anthony Wood, from “The Prophet,”
Louise Glück, excerpt of Persephone the Wanderer
James Agee, from A Death in the Family
Louise Glück, excerpt of Persephone the Wanderer
Kahlil Gibran, in a letter to Mary Haskell, from Beloved Prophet: The Love Letters of Kahlil Gibran and Mary Haskell, and her private journal
Louise Glück, from “Child Crying Out,” Ararat
e.e. cummings, from "the great advantage to being alive," 100 Selected Poems [Grove Press, Inc. NY 1959]
Percy Bysshe Shelley