Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Trapeze: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1947-1955

Ilya Kaminsky, from "Alfonso, in Snow", Deaf Republic

Royal Palace, Amsterdam, 17th century.

“[Simone Weil’s term “decreation” was never exactly defined or spelled, but here is how she describes its aim]: “To undo the creature in us.””

— Anne Carson, “Decreation: How Women Like Sappho, Marguerite Porete and Simone Weil Tell God", Decreation, p. 167 (via bulgakeov)

Nick Alm

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

[text: I feel as if I belonged to another world,]