Rainer Maria Rilke, "The Prodigal Son." The Selected Poetry Of Rainer Maria Rilke (translated By Stephen

May Sarton, from "She Shall Be Called Woman" in Selected Poems

“Dickens told me,” Dostoyevsky recalled in a letter written years later, “that all the good, simple people in his novels … are what he wanted to have been, and his villains were what he was (or rather, what he found in himself), his cruelty, his attacks of causeless enmity towards those who were helpless and looked to him for comfort, his shrinking from those whom he ought to love… . There were two people in him, he told me: one who feels as he ought to feel and one who feels the opposite. From the one who feels the opposite I make my evil characters, from the one who feels as a man ought to feel, I try to live my life.”

― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Letters of Fyodor Dostoevsky to his family and friends

Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out

–Beau Taplin

Franz Kafka

Kim Addonizio, “The Singing”, Tell Me

Andrea Gibson, The Madness Vase