“It Is Madness To Hate All Roses Because You Got Scratched With One Thorn.”

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

Alejandra Pizarnik, "Silences" from Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972

Alejandra Pizarnik, "Silences" from Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972

Anaïs Nin, from “The diary of Anaïs Nin, vol. 3: 1939-1944”

Franz Kafka, from “Diaries, 1910-1923”

Marina Tsvetaeva, from Poem of the End: V (tr. by Elaine Feinstein)

“Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.”

— Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

ancient greek word of the night: νυκτόμαντις (nyktomantis), one who prophesies by night

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