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“Ô, Muse of the Heart’s Passion,
let me relive my Love’s memory,
to remember her body, so brave and so free,
and the sound of my Dreameress singing to me,
and the scent of my Dreameress sleeping by me,
Ô, sing, sweet Muse, my soliloquy!”
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let me relive my Love’s memory,
to remember her body, so brave and so free,
and the sound of my Dreameress singing to me,
and the scent of my Dreameress sleeping by me,
Ô, sing, sweet Muse, my soliloquy!”
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“I sleep among ravishing illusions and wake to their burden.”
― The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Three: 1925-1930
― The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Three: 1925-1930
“In the beginning was the word and the word was love and love was imagination. When love takes us through the sun-dappled garden of our imagination, no stalking horses can perturb the rainbow in our mind or fade out its bright colors reflecting in the blue sky of our memory. ("Alpha and Omega")”
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“I know I can't own a hilltop, a meadow, or a mountainside. But keeping it a secret somehow makes it mine.”
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“When fall comes to town,
lovers, letters, and leaves
reunite on the sidewalks,
broken, burnt, and brown.”
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lovers, letters, and leaves
reunite on the sidewalks,
broken, burnt, and brown.”
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