Charles Wright, From "A Journal Of The Year Of The Ox", The World Of Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990

Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis

The universe is flirting with you.

Are you noticing?

D. H. Lawrence, from The Complete Novels and Writings of D. H. Lawrence

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C.G. Jung, from Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 11: Psychology and Religion: West and East

Text ID: Man is free to decide whether "God" shall be a “spirit" or a natural phenomenon like the craving of a morphine addict, and hence whether "God" shall act as a beneficent or a destructive force.

London, 1949. source

Dante Gabriel Rosetti, Veronica Veronese [1872]

Simone de Beauvoir, from Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 1, 1926-27

Text ID: my solitude is an intoxication: I am, I'm in control, I love myself, and I scorn everything else.

Chris Abani, from "Terminus", 3 poems pub. Air Light Magazine [transcript in ALT]

Robert Eggers, from the original Nosferatsu script (2016)

Text ID: I have sought a creature from the depths. An Eve that remembers her Eden. You are such a one.