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“I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”
— Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf’s Handwritten Suicide Note: A Painful and Poignant Farewell (1941)
“Thoughts that found a maze of mermaid hair / Tangling in the tide’s green fall / Now fold their wings like bats and disappear / Into the attic of the skull.”
— Sylvia Plath, from The Collected Poems; “Two Lovers & a Beachcomber by the Real Sea,”
Ted Hughes, Collected Poems: Uncollected (1960-67); from ‘Bad News Good!’
Paul Valéry, tr. by Vernon Watkins, from The Collected Works; “The Friendly Wood,”
Voice Lessons: On Becoming a (Woman) Writer, Nancy Mairs
[ID: I was too swallowed up in my life to see it whole,]
My whole being calls for an act of violence, but I still use velvet gloves.
- Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary; 1939-1947
— Mary Oliver, from “Flare,” in Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver