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E.E. Cummings, Complete Poems, 1904-1962

I wish I’d done everything on Earth with you.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald

If we find ourselves

with a desire

that nothing in this world can satisfy,

the most probable explanation

is that we were made for another world.

—C.S. Lewis

Edna St. Vincent Millay, from "Short Story" in The Collected Poems

—Rainer Maria Rilke, from Love Poems to God (𝟣𝟫𝟢𝟧)

—Sara Teasdale

from The Collected Poems of Sara Teasdale; "Effigy of a Nun,"

April 23, 1929

Journals of Anais Nin 1927-1931  [volume 4]

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

[originally published 1929]

Attar of Nishapur, from “The Conference of the Birds,” or. publ. c. 1177

“Eat me, my love, live on me with animal-thirst … enter me and become my hunger for you.”

— J. Karl Bogartte, from A Curious Night for a Double Eclipse

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

There is no sweeter place than the past, but you can’t live there

Chelsea Wolfe, from "Dusk" released in 2023

“Don’t be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life.”

—Natalie Babbitt

“Death is not the greatest loss in life.

The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.”

—Tupac Shakur

“Never bend your head. Hold it high.

Look the world straight in the eye.”

—Helen Keller

“If the full moon loves you, why worry about the stars?”

—Tunisian Proverb

—Leo Tolstoy

“You have to love. You have to feel.

It is the reason you are here on earth.

You are here to risk your heart.”

—Louise Erdrich

There is nothing that attracts me more than a deep, honest, serene, and truly meaningful conversation.

—Henry Miller, from a letter to Anaïs Nin, featured in “A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953″