INFP Problems

Vladimir Mayakovsky, from a letter featured in "Love in the Heart of Everything; The Correspondence between Vladimir Mayakovsky & Lili Brik, 1915-1930,"

Ama Codjoe, from Bluest Nude: Poems; “Bluest Nude”

Marina Tsvetaeva, from The Selected Poems; "Where Does Such Tenderness,"

T. S. Eliot, from The Complete Works of T. S. Eliot; "The Confidential Clerk,"

Sara Teasdale, from The Collected Poems of Sara Teasdale; "Song,"

Alice Oswald, Nobody

— Anne Carson, from “Red Doc>.”

— Carol Rifka Brunt in Tell The Wolves I'm Home

— Alice Notley, from In the Pines

Marianne Fritz, from The Weight of Things

May 11, 1931 Journals of Anais Nin 1927-1931  [volume 4]

— Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

“In Irish when you talk about emotion, you don’t say, ‘I am sad’. You’d say, ‘sadness is on me’ ‘tá bron orm’.

And I love that because there’s an implication of not identifying yourself with the emotion fully. I am not sad, it’s just that sadness is on me for a while.

Something else will be on me another time, and that’s a good thing to recognise.”

—Pádraig Ó Tuama

— Lyric Hunter, from “A Garden,” Swallower

Adonis, tr. by Khaled Mattawa, Selected Poems