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    John Keats
    “I am profoundly enchanted by the flowing complexity in you.”
    John Keats

  • #2
    John Keats
    “I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.”
    John Keats, Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

  • #3
    John Keats
    “The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
    John Keats

  • #4
    John Keats
    “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all
    Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know”
    John Keats, The Complete Poems

  • #5
    John Keats
    “I cannot exist without you - I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again - my Life seems to stop there - I see no further. You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I were dissolving... I have been astonished that Men could die Martyrs for religion - I have shudder'd at it - I shudder no more - I could be martyr'd for my Religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that - I could die for you. My creed is Love and you are its only tenet - You have ravish'd me away by a Power I cannot resist.”
    John Keats

  • #6
    John Keats
    “My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.”
    John Keats, Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

  • #7
    John Keats
    “I have so much of you in my heart.”
    John Keats

  • #8
    John Keats
    “Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art—
    Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
    And watching, with eternal lids apart,
    Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
    The moving waters at their priestlike task
    Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
    Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
    Of snow upon the mountains and the moors—
    No—yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,
    Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,
    To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
    Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
    Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
    And so live ever—or else swoon to death.

    Bright Star
    John Keats, The Complete Poems

  • #9
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #10
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.”
    Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Stories and Poems

  • #11
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Deep in earth my love is lying
    And I must weep alone.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #12
    Sylvia Plath
    “I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #13
    Madeline Miller
    “He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #14
    Henry David Thoreau
    “I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

  • #15
    Henry David Thoreau
    “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.”
    Henry David Thoreau

  • #16
    Henry David Thoreau
    “The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
    Henry David Thoreau

  • #17
    Henry David Thoreau
    “I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

  • #18
    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else's muse.
    I am not a muse.
    I am the somebody.
    End of fucking story.”
    Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

  • #19
    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “Men often think they deserve a sticker for treating women like people.”
    Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

  • #20
    John Keats
    “Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream,
    And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by?
    ---"On death”
    John Keats, Complete Poems and Selected Letters

  • #21
    Plato
    “Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
    Plato

  • #22
    Zelda Fitzgerald
    “Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
    Zelda Fitzgerald

  • #23
    Donna Tartt
    “Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
    Donna Tartt, The Secret History

  • #24
    Donna Tartt
    “Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.”
    Donna Tartt, The Secret History

  • #25
    Donna Tartt
    “Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
    Donna Tartt, The Secret History

  • #26
    Donna Tartt
    “Are you happy here?" I said at last.
    He considered this for a moment. "Not particularly," he said. "But you're not very happy where you are, either.”
    Donna Tartt, The Secret History

  • #27
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

  • #28
    Khaled Hosseini
    “Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.”
    Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

  • #29
    Khaled Hosseini
    “Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.”
    Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

  • #30
    Khaled Hosseini
    “I will follow you to the ends of the world.”
    Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns



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