Yannis Ritsos, Trans. By Kimon Friar, From A Poem Featured In "Erotica: Love Poems,"

Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, Vladimir Nabokov

Marcel Proust, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Marcel Proust

I would love to leave this world for some cosmic experience- death.

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Leonard Woolf, featured in The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf

Natalie Díaz, from “That Which Cannot Be Stilled”, Postcolonial Love Poem

6 April, 1937 Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov

But you reside in a different world, and we only connected through obscurity in time. Now I'll spend my days wishing we'll meet again sometime.

Martha Gellhorn, from a letter to Robert Sherrod featured in The Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn

14 April, 1937 Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov