Lizzie

“In this world
love has no color
yet how deeply
my body
is stained by yours.”
― Izumi Shikibu, Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan

“And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it...”
― Constantine P. Cavafy/Κωνσταντίνος Π. Καβάφης

“On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was--to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt
at being told that it is a fragment
awaiting perfection.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Fireflies: a collection of proverbs, aphorisms and maxims