Adrian Piper - Everything Will Be Taken Away (2004)
-Anaïs Nin, 1939
morrissey’s letter from 1980
ALT
Osip Mandelstam (translated by Andrew Davis)
how strange it is to be anything at all
erin lecount, sweet fruit
Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer written in 1913, featured in Letters To Felice
Anaïs Nin, from a letter to Henry Miller written c. January 1933, featured in A Literate Passion
Ada Limón, from Lies About Sea Creatures
ZENDAYA COLEMAN
Time (June 2022)
Martha Gellhorn, from a letter to Ernest Hemingway featured in The Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn
Well, that is another hope gone. ‘My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.’ That’s a sentence I read in a book once, and I say it over to comfort myself whenever I’m disappointed in anything.
L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
Hope was there, and laughed me out of sadness; whispering, “winter will not linger long!”
Emily Brontë, from “Death, That Struck When I Was Most Confiding”
La Scarzuola, Italy
