— Anaïs Nin

La Belle Noiseuse (Jacques Rivette, 1991)

from "The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh" (c. 5-6 September 1889)

— unknown (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

Martha Gellhorn, from a letter to David Gurewitsch featured in The Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn

4 April, 1927 The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf (1924-1941)

I broke in places no one could see, and smiled like nothing ever cracked.

Shen Yueh, translated by Kenneth Rexroth, from "Farewell to Fan Yun at an Ch'eng,"

—Nayyirah Waheed

Joy Sullivan, “Yearn”, Instructions for Traveling West