Martha Gellhorn, From A Letter To David Gurewitsch Featured In The Selected Letters Of Martha Gellhorn

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

So close. So close. I wish I were dead.

Lidia Yuknavitch, from Reading the Waves: A Memoir published in 2025

Trista Mateer, from "Aphrodite Made Me Do It," originally published in 2019

Nikos Kazantzakis, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis

I'll leave you for now, won't ask what that's about. But I'll wait for a recall. Remember me in the midst of it all.

— Margaret Atwood, Late Night

Mahmoud Darwish, from The Butterfly's Burden; "Maybe, Because Winter Is Late,"

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