T. S. Eliot — The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock

Else Fitzgerald, from "Everything Feels Like the End of The World," publ. in 2022

“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”

— Anne Frank

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

“I can’t think of a better way to revenge someone who tried to break you, than to live and love life more without them.”

— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe 

“I wore my fairy dress of tulle and danced until midnight.”

— Anais Nin

“What thing worthy of love can be found in me?”

— Franz Kafka, from Letters To Milena

“Vanity is the fear of appearing original.”

—Daybreak, §365 (excerpt).

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in The Diary of Anaïs Nin Volume 1 1931-1934

April 13, 1913 Letters to Felice by Franz Kafka First published : 1973

Anna Akhmatova, from "Don't Frighten Me" in Selected Poems