“Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget.”
― The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters
― The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters
“She felt almost guilty that she had handed some of her grief to him, and then she felt close to him for his willingness to take it and hold it, in all its rawness, all its dark confusion.”
― Brooklyn
― Brooklyn
“Every mile was redolent of associations, which she would not have missed for the world, but each of which made her cry upon 'the days that are no more' with ineffable longing.”
― North and South
― North and South
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