The fiercest hearts are in love with a wild perfection. —Stanley Kunitz

Ovid

The lost hour never returns.

Gregory Orr

Mary Oliver

Nietzsche

Without music, life would be a mistake.

W.S. Merwin

Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle
Everything I do is stitched with its color

W.S. Merwin

What you do not have you find everywhere.

William Maxwell

In any case, in talking about the past we lie with every breath we take.

Philip Larkin

What will survive of us is love.

Stanley Kunitz

What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

Milan Kundera

Most people deceive themselves with a pair of faiths: they believe in
eternal memory (of people, things, deeds, nations) and in
redressibility (of deeds, mistakes, sins, wrongs). Both are false
faiths. In reality the opposite is true: everything will be forgotten
and nothing will be redressed.

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