John Keats, From A Letter To Fanny Brawne, Featured In The Selected Letters Of John Keats

Each cut of fiber on my skin should represent the things I deserved. The pain I deserve. If I counted all, I may not be breathing by dawn.

Virginia Woolf's a letter to Violet Dickinson, September 1907.

Anne Sexton, from an interview featured in No Evil Star: Selected Essays, Interviews & Prose

M.S. (via coffee-crinkled-pages)

Simone de Beauvoir, from "Inseraparable: A Never Before Published Novel,"

3 May, 1937 Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov

Henri Cole, from a poem titled "Twilight," featured in A Century of Poetry in the New Yorker

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 Ernest Hemingway featured in The Selected Letters of Marth Gellhorn