Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters To A Young Poet (translation By Stephen Mitchell)

Albert Camus, letters to María Casares.

Kim Addonizio, from Lucifer at the Starlite: Poems; “You with the crack running through you”

y'all think about love?

Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

embrace

Briony Marshall (Peaceful embrace or the melting of boundaries), Stephan Sinding (To Mennesker), Gustav Vigeland (Kiss), William Zorach (Embrace), Antonio Canova (Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss)

On Friendship.

“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and they will come forth, later, in uglier ways.”

— Sigmund Freud

I ATE A BIG BAG OF FACTORY REJECT SEEDS UNTIL A HEALTHY FLOWER UNFURLED IN MY CHEST ...

I MISTOOK THE SENSATION FOR LOVE AND DIED.

Anaïs Nin, Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1939-1947