Time has come for you, to take you away From this stage where my life enacts itself. I suppose it is time for me to face my past, Something which I was so eager to …
I have loved badly, loved the great Too soon, withdrawn my words too late; And eaten in an echoing hall Alone and from a chipped plate The words that I withdrew too late. – Edna …
To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk …
…but, friend, to me He is all fault who hath no fault at all: For who loves me must have a touch of earth. – Alfred Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King, “Elaine”
Tonight once more we shall meet As I wait in the still of the night Watching the darkness, once again You have been delayed. Your desire a thirst too great to quench the craving That …
I hold it true, whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; ‘Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. – Alfred Lord Tennyson, “In Memoriam”, Part XXVII
Last night you came to me once more Like death knocked on my door, Pure white angels snowy white Jerked me right out of sleep, Standing dark and solemn at the foot of my bed …
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments; Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O, no, it is an ever-fixed mark, …
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel, But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatched, unfledged comrade. – William Shakespeare, Hamlet (Act 1, …
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. – Martin Luther King Junior (1968 speech, where he reflects on the Civil Rights Movement)
