Franz Wright, From Earlier Poems; “Poem In Three Parts: 2. The Wound”

kafka

“What thing worthy of love can be found in me?”

— Franz Kafka, from Letters To Milena

“You can’t betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.”

— Ed Harris

Louise Glück, from “Blue Rotunda.”

“I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

“There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.”

— Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem

Kate Chopin, from The Awakening

William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

Gennady Aygi, tr. by Peter France, from “The People Are a Temple.”

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