Why Are You In Despair, O My Soul?

Franz Kafka, from a letter to Milena Jesenka featured in "Letters to Milena,

“I have so much to say to you that l am afraid I shall tell you nothing.”

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Anne Sexton, from an interview featured in No Evil Star: Selected Essays, Interviews & Prose

Mary Szybist, from  “In Tennessee I Found a Firefly”, Granted

— v, excerpts from a book i’ll never write #2 (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

Ilya Kaminsky, from "Alfonso Stands Answerable", Deaf Republic

Simone de Beauvoir, from a diary entry featured in Diary of a Philosophy Student

— virginia woolf , carlyle's house and other sketches (via letsbelonelytogetherr)