A DEEP-SWORN VOW
Others because you did not keep
That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine.
Yet always read more

A DEEP-SWORN VOW
Others because you did not keep
That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine.
Yet always when I look death in the face,
When I clamber to the heights of sleep,
Or when I grow excited with wine,
Suddenly I meet your face.

To love and to be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

To love and to be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

Love is suffering. One side always loves more.

Love is suffering. One side always loves more.

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance read more

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.

It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.

Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each read more

Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

There is only one sort of love, but there are a thousand copies.

There is only one sort of love, but there are a thousand copies.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. read more

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.