Sylvia Plath, aged 30, in a letter to her mother, 6 months after discovering her husband's infidelity, and their subsequent separation (dated Wednesday, 16 January 1963)
[Ted Hughes (aged 32) - her husband, who was having an affair with Assia Wevill (aged 35), a married woman who rented their London flat at Chalcot Square; Sylvia moved with their children (a 2-year-old daughter & an 11-month-old son) from Court Green in Devon, to 23 Fitzroy Road in London, at a rented flat, formerly the residence of W. B. Yeats]
Mahmoud Darwish, from The Butterfly's Burden; "Maybe, Because Winter Is Late,"
I broke in places no one could see, and smiled like nothing ever cracked.
12 May, 1937 Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov
Moodboard
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry written c. April 1929, featured in Selected Diaries
May 13th, 1933 Virginia Woolf, “A Writer’s Diary” (1918 - 1941)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, from a letter featured in The Life & Letters of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky