Virginia Woolf, "A Writer's Diary"

Virginia Woolf, "A Writer's Diary"

Virginia Woolf, "A Writer's Diary"

Sylvia Plath, aged 26, from "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath" (dated September 30, 1959)

Sylvia Plath, aged 25, from "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath" (dated April 13, 1958)

Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath, aged 23, in a letter to her mother (dated Sunday, 29 January 1956)

Sylvia Plath, aged 23, in a letter to J. Mallory Wober (dated Thursday, 29 December 1955)

Sylvia Plath, aged 22, in a letter to her mother (dated Sunday, 25 September 1955)

Sylvia Plath, aged 22, in a letter to her mother (dated Monday, 25 April 1955)

Sylvia Plath, aged 17, in a letter to Hans-Joachim Neupert, her German pen pal friend (dated Monday, 2 January 1950)

To bed, deep dream sleep. Rain on roof outside window, gray light, deep covers and warm blankets. Rain and nip of autumn in air; nostalgia, itch to work better and bigger. That crisp edge of autumn.

An excerpt from "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath", 1950-1962

swimming in sylvia's mind

Fernando Pessoa, an excerpt from “The Book of Disquiet”

Fernando Pessoa, an excerpt from “The Book of Disquiet”

The grass and the trees are fed by the rain, as we are by bread. And as for the thunder, don't you be frightened, little orphan. Why should it kill a little thing like you?

Anton Chekhov, A Day in the Country

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before–more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.

Charles Dickens, Great Expectations