“If I were to single out a word to describe her, it would be radiant.”
— Wilbury Crockett, on Sylvia Plath, featured in “American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath,”
My heart has returned and I am determined to love again.
most days i am a museum of things i want to forget.
most days i am a museum of things i want to forget.
“If I were to single out a word to describe her, it would be radiant.”
— Wilbury Crockett, on Sylvia Plath, featured in “American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath,”
“— and I CAN’T GET OUT OF IT and I’m scared scared scared scared scared.”
— Elizabeth Bishop, from a letter to Loren McIver featured in One Art: Letters
“The days are long and weigh on me. I am suffocating.”
— Albert Camus, from a letter featured in “A Life Worth Living,” c. 1940
And yet, for my art and for my loved ones I will gladly endure to the end.
“— and I CAN’T GET OUT OF IT and I’m scared scared scared scared scared.”
— Elizabeth Bishop, from a letter to Loren McIver featured in One Art: Letters
“It is a great art: to love and keep still.”
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Anna Kamienska, from a diary entry featured in “In That Great River: A Notebook,”
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“— and I CAN’T GET OUT OF IT and I’m scared scared scared scared scared.”
— Elizabeth Bishop, from a letter to Loren McIver featured in One Art: Letters
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