Jeanette Winterson, from "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal," publ. in 2011

Trista Mateer, from "Aphrodite Made Me Do It," originally published in 2019

Nikita Gill, from Fierce Fairytales Poems & Stories to Stir Your Soul; "Seven,"

Anne Michaels, from "Infinite Gradation," originally published in October 2017

Kim Addonizio, from What Is This Thing Called Love: Poems; "''Round Midnight,"

Vincent van Gogh Still Life with French Novels and Glass with a Rose 1887

Nikita Gill, from Fierce Fairytales Poems & Stories to Stir Your Soul; "Why Tinkerbell Quit Anger Management,"

love as recognition

anna gavalda / friedrich nietzsche / clarice lispector / jandy nelson / rebecca perry / mhairi mcfarlane

Nikita Gill, from Fierce Fairytales Poems & Stories to Stir Your Soul; "Two Misunderstood Stepsisters,"

Art. Leonardo Bistolfi, Il canto d'amore

Gaius Valerius Catullus, translated by Matthew Nisinson, from "Burning All Through,"

— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close  (via loveage-moondream)

Virginia Woolf, from her novel titled "The Voyage Out," originally published in 1915

Anne Sexton, from The Complete Poems; “The Fury of Flowers and Worms,”