Nikos Kazantzakis, From A Letter Featured In The Selected Letters Of Nikos Kazantzakis

Louise Glück, from Faithful and Virtuous Night: Poems; "A Foreshortened Journey,"

Joy Sullivan, “The Electrician Sings "Easy Love" in the Kitchen While Fixing My Light”, Instructions for Traveling West

Maybe it's better this way. End it with a BANG. That way we'll be too caught up fixing the damages we caused, but too tired picking up the pieces we crumbled into.

Sylvia Plath, aged 23, in a letter to Richard Sassoon (dated Sunday, 11 December 1955)

Joseph Brodsky, from The Selected Poems of Joseph Brodsky; "A Song,"

Anne Carson, from her book titled "Short Talks," originally published in 1992

Virginia Woolf's a letter to Violet Dickinson, September 1907.

Marcel Proust, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Marcel Proust

Nikos Kazantzakis, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis