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And all the time, and all the time, my love, 950 You too are there, beneath the word, above The syllable, to underscore and stress The vital rhythm. One heard a woman’s dress Rustle in days of yore. I’ve often caught The sound and sense of your approaching thought. And all in you is youth, and you make new, By quoting them, old things I made for yo
... See moreVladimir Nabokov • Pale Fire (Vintage International)
My last moment and she would never know what she is to me. How much she is to me. That she’s it for me.
Elsie Silver • Powerless: A Small Town Friends to Lovers Romance
From childhood’s hour I have not been
As others were—I have not seen
As others saw—I could not bring
My passions from a common spring—
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow—I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone—
And all I lov’d—I lov’d alone
Edgar Allan Poe
A self one does not want. A heart one cannot help.
Donna Tartt • The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
My head was resting on my love;
Lost to all things and myself,
And, amid the lilies forgotten,
Threw all my cares away.
St. John Of The Cross • The Dark Night of the Soul by St. John Of The… | Poetry Foundation
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity’s sunrise. —William Blake
Bill Morgan • The Meditator's Dilemma: An Innovative Approach to Overcoming Obstacles and Revitalizing Your Practice
It matters not whether they visit my mind or yours,—only that it come from heaven. A meteorological journal of the mind. You shall observe what occurs in your latitude, I in mine.
Henry David Thoreau, Damion Searls, • The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861
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Said AlSalah • 14 cards
No more would she try “to make my feelings take an orderly course.” Instead, she would accept “the extreme affection of my nature” and “the impetuous tide of [my] feelings.”