Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“IPHIGENIA : I shall wash blood with blood to get rid of the defilement—”

— Euripides, Iphigenia Among the Taurians (tr. by Anne Carson)

or·phic

/ˈôrfik/

adjective mysterious and entrancing; beyond ordinary understanding.

Christina Rossetti, from Poems and Prose; “An Afterthought”

Text ID: Sure she kept one part of Eden / Angels could not strip her of.

She naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel herself for ever and ever and ever alone.

Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography

Franz Kafka, from “Diaries, 1910-1923”

Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse on translating Abdulla Pashew's "Resurrection" (essay here, full poem here) [ID'd]

acosmist

(noun)

one who believes that nothing exists.

“My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.”

John Keats Love Letter To Fanny Brawne – 13 October 1819

Virginia Woolf ― The Years

Mikhail Kuzmin, from “The Summer’s Love,” featured in “A Treasury of Russian Verse,”