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Mary Oliver, Long Life: Essays and Other Writings

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Requiem for a Dream (2000) dir. Darren Aronofsky

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April 25, 1928 Journals of Anais Nin 1927-1931  [volume 4]

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Stephen Dunn, The Insistence of Beauty: Poems

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Carl Phillips, from “Civilization”, Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020

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Suzanne Rivecca, Ugly Bitter and True

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something holy inside you wants to get out but you can’t let it

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Sara Teasdale, from The Collected Poems of Sara Teasdale; "Song,"

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Mary Oliver, from “The Fourth Sign of the Zodiac”, Blue Horses

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Carl Phillips, from “Civilization”, Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020

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"But music was not articulate. It was not a new world, but rather another chaos, that it created in us."

- The picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

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Rainer Maria Rilke, from a letter featured in Letters to Merline, 1919-1922

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You can only see in others what your nature allows you to see. The range of your vision depends on the extent of the personal development. The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic; I never generalize, intellectualize. I see, I hear, I feel. These are my primitive instruments of discovery.

The Diary of Anaïs Nin

Anaïs Nin

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Henry Miller, in a letter to Anaïs Nin, d. March 4, 1932, from A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953

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Henry Miller, in a letter to Anaïs Nin, d. March 4, 1932, from A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953

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Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Violet Dickinson written c. September 1907