E.e. Cummings, “in The Rain” (from Tulips), Complete Poems: 1904-1962

― Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice‎

[text ID: I mustn't look at you too much, or I won't be able to take my eyes off you at all.]

Dele Olanubi

Anaïs Nin, from the short story “Elena”, Delta of Venus (published posthumously in 1977)

Jamie Varon

Franz Kafka // Sylvia Plath

I don’t think I actually loved you

But I do know I wanted what you could’ve gave me

You could’ve gave me the things I’ve only seen in movies

“you’re so pretty,” okay write poetry about me then.

I only confessed because I wanted you to know. But I also hoped, hoped that you could love me as much as I do you

Anne Sexton, from “Waking Alone,” in The Complete Poems [ID in alt text]