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“Souls"
When two souls fall in love, there is nothing else but the
yearning to be close to the other. The presence that is felt
through a hand held, a voice heard, or a smile seen.

Souls do not have calendars or clocks, nor do they understand
the notion of time or distance. They only know it feels right to
be with one another.

This is the reason why you miss someone so much when they
are not there— even if they are only in the very next room.
Your soul only feels their absence— it doesn’t realize the
separation is temporary.”
― Lang Leav

“Can I ask you something?
Anything.
Why is it every time we say goodnight, it feels like goodbye?”
― Lang Leav

“You were the one, I wanted most to stay.

But time could not be kept at bay.

The more it goes, the more it's gone, the more it takes away.”
― Lang Leav

“I love you,
in ways
you've never been
loved,
for reasons you've never been
told,
for longer than you think you
deserved
and with more
than you will ever know existed
inside
me.”
― Tyler Knott Gregson, Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series

“In the space, the pause between this breath and the one that follows, you have made a home inside me.”
― Tyler Knott Gregson

“A sky
full
of stars
and he
was staring
at her.

—ATTICUS”
― Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild

“I worry there is something broken in our generation,
there are too many sad eyes on happy faces.”
― Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild

“From
the moment
I saw her
I knew
this one
was worth
the
broken
heart.”
― Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild

“I let her go
because I knew she could do better
and now she's gone
I wonder
if I should've
just been better.”
― Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild

“I aspire to be
an old man
with an old wife
laughing at old jokes
from a wild youth.”
― Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild

“There’s too much risk in loving,’
the young boy said,
‘no,’
said the old man,
‘there’s too much risk in not.”
― Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild

“A few drinks and the world was hers—
she wore her whiskey like a loaded gun.”
― Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild

“She walked
through her life
heavy
from the
mighty wings
upon her back.”
― Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild

“Come, my darling,
it is never too late
to begin
our love again.”
― Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild

“LOVE
COULD
BE
LABLED
POISON
AND WE’D
DRINK
IT
ANYWAYS.”
― Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild

“What did we lose, what was lost in us?
To whom do these distances belong that separated us
and that now bind us?

Are we still one
or have we both broken into pieces? How gentle this dust is-
Its body now, and mine, at this very minute
are one and the same”
― Ali Ahmad Sa’id, If Only the Sea Could Sleep

“What shall I say to the body I abandoned
in the rubble of the house
in which I was born?”
― Adonis, Adonis: Selected Poems

“My days are her name

The dreams, when the sky is sleepless
over my sorrow, are her name
The obsession is her name
and the wedding, when slayer and sacrifice embrace
is her name.

Once I sang: every rose
as it tires, is her name
as it journeys, is her name.

Did the road end, has her name changed?”
― Adonis, If Only the Sea Could Sleep

“I am a trembling in your throats; your words are smeared with my blood.”
― Adonis, Poemas

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“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

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
― Plato

“Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. ”
― Plato

“There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.”
― Plato

“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”
― Plato

“she was born
of the moon and stars
and all of the
beautiful things
that shine through
the darkness,
and show us the light.”
― Mark Anthony

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles