“And are you in love? And are you happy? And do you sometimes write a poem? And have you had your hair cut? And have you met anybody of such beauty your eyes dance, as the waves danced,”
— Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Quentin Bell written c. February 1930
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
“Feeling? There is nothing to feel. Except this longing…”
— Clarice Lispector, from An Apprenticeship, or The Book of Delights
“That’s how you know you love someone, I guess. When you can’t experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too.”
— Kaui Hart Hemmings
“I’ll be with him
in all his gardens.”— Mirabai, from tr. by Robert Bly, from The Winged Energy of Delight; “No One Knows my Invisible Life,”
“I am insane; I can’t find my body. The pain has gone through my arms and legs, and I can’t find my mind.”
— Mirabai, from tr. by Robert Bly, from The Winged Energy of Deligh; “The Dagger,”
“The separation from you threw me back into the deepest melancholy,”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, from a letter to Franz Overbeck wr. c. August 1883
“My love was no daydream–it was cautious, but passionate to the point of turbulence, to exhaustion.”
— Zinaida Nikolaevna Gippius, from Selected Works; “Memoirs of Martynov,”
“Don’t let me lose you. Let me come back to you. Come back to me.”
— Dylan Thomas, from a letter to Caitlin Thomas wr. c. February 1948
…You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.
beberequin 