Emaan Mirza

“I had melancholy thoughts...
a strangeness in my mind,
A feeling that I was not for that hour,
Nor for that place.”
― William Wordsworth, The Prelude

“Ce fut le temps sous de clairs ciels,
(Vous en souvenez-vous, Madame?)
De baisers superficiels
Et des sentiments à fleur d'âme.

It was a time of cloudless skies,
(My lady, do you recall?)
Of kisses that brushed the surface
And feelings that shook the soul.”
― Paul Verlaine, Fêtes galantes / Romances sans paroles / Poèmes saturniens

“What madness destroyed me and you, Orpheus?”
― Virgil, The Georgics

“O my poor words, bear with me.”
― Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke