emily ☾

“Oh, how I wish that I and my body could now be parted,
I wish my love were not here! - a curious prayer for a lover.
Now my sorrow is sapping my strength. My life is almost
over. Its candle is guttering out in the prime of my
manhood.
Death will be easy to bear, since dying will cure my
heartache.
Better indeed if the one I love could have lived longer,
but now, two soulmates in one, we shall face our ending
together.”
― Ovid, Metamorphoses

“At any rate, wherever he lay - whether in the little vineyard at the gate of the Gothic town, or in some dim London churchyard amidst the roar and bustle of our great city - no gorgeous monument marked his resting-place. His true tomb, as Shakespeare saw, was the poet's verse, his true monument the permanence of the drama.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Portrait of Mr. W.H.

“Yet God helps
those
who help themselves, remember, and fortune favours the brave.”
― Ovid, Metamorphoses

“You are blind now,' he said, 'so I will stay with you always.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Tales