Charles Wright, From "Portrait Of The Artist In A Prospect Of Stone"

Margaret Atwood, “Thoughts from Underground”, Selected Poems: 1965-1975

Warren B. Davis (1865-1928)

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

[She] looked as if she had been carved out of a single pearl.

Angela Carter, "The Courtship of Mr. Lyon" from The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories.

London, 1949. source

I like my body when it’s with your body

This work, not widely known, is called “Sfumato,” painted in 1972. Dali developed a new technique here, where he embellished the image after first taking paper and scorching and smoking it with a candle

Franz Kafka, 1912

April, 1935 Journals of Anais Nin 1934-1939  [volume 2]