– Audrey Hepburn

I woke up from a nightmare, but it still seemed better than reality.

Sylvia Plath, aged 23, in a letter to Richard Sassoon (dated Sunday, 11 December 1955)

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky, from a letter featured in Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoevsky to his Family & Friends

19 April, 1939 Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov

— Louise Glück, "The Burning Heart"

Martha Gellhorn, from a letter to David Gurewitsch featured in The Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn

Madison Julius Cawein, “Dusk In The Woods”

Joseph Brodsky, from The Selected Poems of Joseph Brodsky; "A Song,"