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Anne Sexton, from a letter featured in Anne Sexton; A Self-Portrait In Letters

#Anne Sexton #Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters #lit #letters

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Albert Camus, from a diary entry featured in Notebooks, 1935-1942

#Albert Camus #lit #diaries #Notebooks: 1935-1942

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Franz Kafka, from a diary entry featured in "The Diaries of Franz Kafka,"

#Franz Kafka #The Diaries of Franz Kafka #lit #diaries

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Vladimir Mayakovsky, from a letter featured in "Love in the Heart of Everything; The Correspondence between Vladimir Mayakovsky & Lili Brik, 1915-1930,"

#Vladimir Mayakovsky #lit #letters #Love in the Heart of Everything: The Correspondence between Vladimir Mayakovsky & Lili Brik

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Mahmoud Darwish, from The Adam of two Edens: Selected Poems; "Why Have You Left the Horse Alone?,"

#Mahmoud Darwish #The adam of two Edens: Selected Poems #Why Have You Left the Horse Alone? #lit #poetry

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Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vanessa Bell written c. August 1937, featured in Selected Letters

#Virginia Woolf #Vanessa Bell #lit #letters

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Sylvia Plath, from a journal entry featured in "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath,"

#Sylvia Plath #The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath #lit #journals

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Anne Sexton, from a letter featured in Anne Sexton; A Self-Portrait In Letters

#Anne Sexton #Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait In Letters #lit #letters

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Frida Kahlo, from a letter written in 1934, featured in "The Letters of Frida Kahlo,"

#Frida Kahlo #The Letters of Frida Kahlo #lit #letters

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I don’t want to suffer any longer and I can’t, I can’t, I can’t, I can’t, I can’t.

Edna St. Vincent Millay, from a diary entry written c. September 1911 (via violentwavesofemotion)

#/ #Edna St. Vincent Millay #lit #diaries

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One of my teachers at Columbia was Joseph Brodsky, who’s a Russian poet, wonderful, amazing poet, who was exiled from the Soviet Union for being a poet. And he said look, you Americans, you are so naïve. You think evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots. It doesn’t come like that. Look at the language. It begins in the language.

Marie Howe (via heteroglossia)

#Marie Howe #Joseph Brodsky #lit #poetry

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-Samuel Beckett, on being ghosted, in a letter to Thomas McGreevy  

#Samuel Beckett #Thomas McGreevy #lit #letters

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Do you ever mean what you say, or say what you mean? Or do you just enjoy baffling the people who try to creep a little nearer?

Vita Sackville-West, from a letter to Virginia Woolf c. August 1923 (via woolfdaily)

#Vita Sackville-West #Virginia Woolf #lit #letters

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Have you seen any photos of her? An extraordinarily lonely face…

Simone de Beauvoir, on Virginia Woolf, from an interview c. May 1965 (via woolfdaily)

#Simone de Beauvoir #Virginia Woolf #lit

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Yes, I was wholly and entirely happy. If you could have uncored me—you would have seen every nerve running fire—intense, but calm.

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vita Sackville-West c. December 1926 (via woolfdaily)

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Please come, and bathe me in serenity again.

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vita Sackville-West c. December 1926 (via woolfdaily)

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I become mystical and feel an alliance with you which is eternal, not interrupted, or hurt by never meeting. If there is anything I could ever give you, I would give it, but perhaps the only thing to give is to be oneself with people.

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Gwen Raverat written c. March 1925 (via woolfdaily)

#Virginia Woolf #Gwen Raverat #lit #letters