Theodore Roethke, From "Vernal Sentiment", The Collected Poems Of Theodore Roethke [ID'd]

Cleveland Trust building, stairs. Photograph by Margaret Bourke-White, 1929.

Michael Dickman, "‘It’s all so strange, writing poems’: A Conversation with Michael Dickman,” curated by Kristina Marie Darling, Tupelo Quarterly (2018) [ID in ALT]

Necessity may be the mother of invention

But desire is the mother of transformation

Clementine von Radics, from “Letter from Anaïs Nin to Clementine von Radics”

Text ID: For women who are tied to the moon, love alone is not enough.

I know you. I have felt you like a serpent crawling in my body.

Unknown // Suzanne Scanlon

I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole

- Carl Jung

"'I have led a toothless life,' he thought. 'A toothless life. I have never bitten into anything. I was waiting. I was reserving myself for later on--and I have just noticed that my teeth have gone. What's to be done?'"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason (1945)