I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world,
Virginia Woolf, from The Complete Works; “The Waves,”
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Do not change, love me, do not let your memory grow cold,
Fyodor Dostoevsky, from a letter to his brother c. December 1840
April / Is full of whispers, full of sighs,
Edna St. Vincent Millay, from The Collected Poems; “Song Of A Second April,” (edited)
“She scares the hell out of me and calms my soul at the same time. Maybe that’s what love is—a total contradiction that somehow balances out.”
Tammara Webber, Where You Are
“Patience, patience, patience, was all she was finding in this windblown spring.”
— Clarice Lispector, from The Complete Stories: “The Buffalo,”
I will not have you without the darkness that hides within you. I will not let you have me without the madness that makes me. If our demons cannot dance, neither can we.
Nikita Gill
She can love. She can save with her love.
Her problem is that she doesn’t know how to express this love.
Ingmar Bergman, from an interview conducted c. October 1964
I want to surround myself with beauty.
Gabriela Mistral, from Selected Prose & Prose Poems; “The Hush,”
I enter the place of not-thinking, not-remembering, not-wanting.
Mary Oliver, from Thirst; Six Recognitions of the Lord.
I need what is not in this world.
Zinaida Gippius, from A Difficult Soul; “Hopeless Wait,”
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