Birds Hover The Trampled Field, Richard Siken

acosmist

(noun)

one who believes that nothing exists.

kafka

Kim Addonizio, from "'Round Midnight'", What Is This Thing Called Love

Donna Tartt, The Secret History

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, from a letter to Jane Williams written in February 1823, featured in The Letters of Mary Shelley

T.S. Eliot, from “III. The Fire Sermon”, Collected Poems, 1909-1962

“And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.”

— Jane Austen

“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.”

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— Adonis, from Singular in a Plural Form, tr. by Khaled Mattawa

“She was very private. I don’t think anyone will ever be able to totally capture her—she seemed so evanescent.”

— Joseph Mitchell