Category: Quotes

You are trembling.

It’s the way I crooked my elbow, you know, this way
– it’s nothing –

H.D., Bid Me to Live

Guillaume Apollinaire

Does she scare you a little? Good. She should make you fear her love, so that when she lets you be a part of it, you won’t take it lightly. She should remind you of the power that beauty brings, that storms reside in her veins, and that she still wants you in the middle of it all. Do not take this soul for granted, for she is fierce, and she can take you places that you never thought you could go; but she is still loving in the midst of it all, like the calm rain after a storm, she can bring life. Learn her, and cherish her, respect her, and love her; for she is so much more than a pretty face, she is a soul on fire.

There are openings in our lives
of which we know nothing.

— Jane Hirshfield, The Envoy in Given Sugar, Given Salt

I like missing you so hard because it makes me feel strongly that you are not a dream, you are real, you are living, and I’ll meet you again.

– Simone de Beauvoir

At what o’clock to-morrow
Shall I send to thee?

At the hour of twelve.

I will not fail: ’tis twenty years till then.
I have forgot why I did call thee back.

Let me stand here till thou remember it.

I shall forget, to have thee still stand there,
Remembering how I love thy company.

And I’ll still stay, to have thee still forget,
Forgetting any other home but this.

– William Shakespeare

Let lips do what hands do

– William Shakespeare

Fire that’s closest kept burns most of all.

– William Shakespeare