Emily Dickinson, From A Letter To Ottis P. Lord written C. March 1878

― Emily Dickinson

“I bloom within myself, inwardly,”

— Gabriela Mistral, from Selected Prose & Prose Poems; “The Fig,”

“There is a kind of person for whom an enthusiasm for boredom represents the beginning of philosophy.”

— Friedrich Schlegel, Athenaeum Fragments

Do today what everyone else will do tomorrow. — Jean Cocteau, French poet

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

— Hermann Hesse, from “Iris”, The Fairytales of Hermann Hesse

“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

September 22. Nothing.

Franz Kafka - Diaries 1914-1923 (Allegedly)

“And though my love did not leave, it went down into deeper darker places.”

— Lidia Yuknavitch, from The Chronology of Water: A Memoir (Canongate, 2019)

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