#lit journals

[mournfulroses]

Sylvia Plath, from a journal entry featured in "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath,"

[luthienne]

Mahmoud Darwish, from Journal of an Ordinary Grief (tr. from the Arabic by Ibrahim Muhawi)

[Text ID: A place is not only a geographical area; it's also a state of mind. And trees are not just trees; they are the ribs of childhood.]

[twbmagazine]

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[dark-romantics]

[shisasan]

29 August 1921 The letters and journals of Katherine Mansfield : a selection to Dorothy Brett

[flowerytale]

Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980

[wedarkacademia]

[xxrrisxx]

But you see, there is a graveyard in my mouth filled with words that have died.

Emily Palermo

[theoptia]

Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980; February 17th, 1970

Text ID: I don't feel guilt at being unsociable, though I may sometimes regret it because my loneliness is painful. But when I move into the world, it feels like a moral fall—like seeking love in a whorehouse.

[hollyburdorff]

I'm so excited to have these poems appear in Evergreen Review! And I'm very grateful to poetry editor Jee Leong Koh for selecting them, especially since they're not, eh, light reading: reproductive rights, toxic relationships, and so on. Read here!

[mournfulroses]

May Sarton, from a diary entry featured in "Journal of a Solitude," originally published in 1973

[academic-vampire]

𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔢𝔵𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔦𝔬𝔯 𝔪𝔦𝔯𝔯𝔬𝔯𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔦𝔫𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔦𝔬𝔯.

[panthermouthh]

“You doubtless recollect these papers. Here they are. Everything is related in them which bears reference to my accursed origin… the minutest description of my odious and loathesome person is given, in language which painted your own horrors and rendered mine indelible. I sickened as I read.”

[mysterieuxclairdelune]

“I am afraid of getting older. I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a day— spare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote. I want to be free... I want, I want to think, to be omniscient.”

-Sylvia Plath written in 1949 at age 17

[shisasan]

September 1, 1938 Virginia Woolf, “A Writer’s Diary” (1918 - 1941)

[wedarkacademia]

I wanted "peace," to be left alone in my underground world. Real life oppressed me with its novelty so much that I could hardly breathe.

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground