“I Must See New Things And Investigate Them. I Want To Taste Dark Water And See Crackling Trees And

Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, This Is How You Lose the Time War

Louise Glück, from “Blue Rotunda.”

Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely.

— Haruki Murakami

The many wrongly addressed letters. Then the unsent ones. Followed by the unwritten ones. And at last — again — the poem: the breathed breve... a few syllables too long. — (Wave shorts. Wave troughs. No crests at all.)

– Paul Celan, trans. Pierre Joris

Mikhail Kuzmin, from “The Summer’s Love,” featured in “A Treasury of Russian Verse,”

Beautiful Japanese nature-related diction, from Haruhiko Kindaichi’s The Japanese Language (translated by Umeyo Hirano):

hana-gumori — a hazy sky in the cherry-blossom season; literally, flower cloudiness harumeku — to become more like spring akimeku — to become more like autumn kareru — the death of plants edaburi — the way a tree branches hanafubuki — flowers falling in the wind like snowflakes konoshita-yami — darkness cast by dense trees kaerizaki — the unseasonable blooming of flowers; also the second blooming of spring flowers in autumn yosakura — the cherry blossoms viewed at night by torchlight; literally, night sakura

Anaïs Nin, The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1920–1923

Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, Rien ne va plus

Eileen Myles, "Sleepless." I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems 1975 - 2014

Albert Camus, The Fall Originally published: 1956