“You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.” 
― Adrienne Rich

Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee

Against Wind & Tide: Letters and Journals, 1947-1986 by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford

Blue Nights by Joan Didion

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Eudora: A Writer’s Life by Ann Waldron

Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters

Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin

In honor of William Butler Yeats’ birthday, we bring you Colin Farrell reading “When You Are Old.”

Love by Roy Croft

I love you

Not only for what you are,

But for what I am

When I am with you.

I love you,

Not only for what

You have made of yourself,

But for what

You are making of me.

I love you

For the part of me

That you bring out;

I love you

For putting your hand

Into my heaped-up heart

And passing over

All the foolish, weak things

That you can’t help

Dimly seeing there,

And for drawing out

Into the light

All the beautiful belongings

That no one else had looked

Quite far enough to find

I love you because you

Are helping me to make

Of the lumber of my life

Not a tavern

But a temple.

Out of the works

Of my every day

Not a reproach

But a song.

I love you

Because you have done

More than any creed

Could have done

To make me good.

And more than any fate

Could have done

To make me happy.

You have done it

Without a touch,

Without a word,

Without a sign.

You have done it

By being yourself.