(from Samuel Beckett's Poem, "Cascando")

Li T'ai-po, translated by Kenneth Rexroth, from a poem titled "Eternally Thinking of Each Other,"

Till death do us part? Yea no you’re not getting out of this that easily

Ken van Sickle

someone said, “the reason you isolate when you’re struggling is because you were left alone as a child to deal with your emotions” and i felt that

— Anaïs Nin

— Vladimir Nabokov, Letter to his wife Véra

-Franz Kafka, from Letters to Felice

— Franz Kafka, The Diaries of Franz Kafka

APRIL FOOL 1959 Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters First published: 1977