Margaret Atwood, from Paper Boat: Selected Poems; "He Shifts from East to West,"
Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Edward Sackville-West c. September 1926
Ernest Hemingway, from his novel titled "A Farewell To Arms," originally publ. in 1929
Anne Michaels, from "Infinite Gradation," originally published in October 2017
Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text, trans. Richard Miller
Anne Michaels, from "Infinite Gradation," originally published in October 2017
Kim Addonizio, Lucifer at the Starlite; "You with the Crack Running Through You"
Edgar Allan Poe, from a letter to Mrs. Maria Clemm, July 1849
Maggie Smith, Good Bones
Anne Sexton, from "Music Swims Back To Me" in The Complete Poems
Anne Michaels, from "Infinite Gradation," originally published in October 2017
Agustín Gómez Arcos, The Carnivorous Lamb
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― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Mathilda
Leila Chatti, from “Tea”
ugh why must I be always so repulsed by my own vulnerability but I find it very moving and impressive if other people are vulnerable with me????
Brené Brown, Daring Greatly
Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Violet Dickinson written c. September 1907