May Sarton, From Journal Of A Solitude [ID In Alt Text]

— Franz Kafka, from “The Castle.”

Mary Oliver, from “We Should Be Well Prepared”, Red Bird

"But there are times when man and earth are one, when the pulse of living beats strong, when life is brimming with promise and the future stretches confidently ahead like that road to the hills. Well, I was young..."

J. L. Carr, A Month in the Country (1980)

John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1 [originally published 1667]

Azar du Marest, from Charles Baudelaire’s Harmonie du Soir, 1899.

Toni Frissell, Frida Kahlo, 1937

Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies