“Why, what is to live? Not to eat and drink and breathe,—but to feel the life in you down all the fibres of being, passionately and joyfully.”
― The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barret Barrett 1845-1846
― The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barret Barrett 1845-1846
“Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.”
― In Memoriam
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.”
― In Memoriam
“But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."
(Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven)”
― The Wind Among the Reeds
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."
(Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven)”
― The Wind Among the Reeds
Lauren’s 2025 Year in Books
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