A SONG OF FIRE AND ICE

I am helpless as the sea at the end of her string. I am restless..

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“My own dear love, he is all my world – and I wish I’d never met him.”

— Dorothy Parker, from The Complete Poems of D. P.; “Love Song,”

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“Yet it is true too that my love for you never died, it never got twisted and changed – I never got over you, though I certainly tried to,”

— Iris Murdoch, from a letter to Michael Oakeshott written c. November 1958

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“My bed is so cold without you in it. Tell me something so I can go to sleep.”

— Chelsea Wolfe, from Unknown Rooms; “Hyper Oz,” released c. 2012

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“I love you, I love you more than you can imagine, even supposing that you suppose infinity. Only I understand how I love you.”

— Juliette Drouet, from a letter to Victor Hugo written c. October 1837

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“You are my sunshine and my life. You are my love and my soul.”

— Juliette Drouet, from a letter to Victor Hugo written c. August 1838

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“You do not know, maybe, how much I love you.”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay, from “The Lamp and the Bell,” published c. 1921

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“We can’t get away from one another. We always come together again.”

— Vita Sackville-West, from The Selected Writings of V. S. W.; “Heritage,”

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“Whatever may come, you are forever in all my life,”

— María Casares, from a letter to Albert Camus written c. January 1959

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“…the impossible happiness of loving you in silence.”

— Julia de Burgos, from Song of the Simple Truth: Poems; “Poems to Armando,”

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Self portrait.

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Fabrizia Milia

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Susan Bein

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“I know your strength of spirit. I want you to be with me,”

— Dacia Maraini, from “Only Prostitutes Marry in May,” wr. c. August 1994 (via violentwavesofemotion)

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“Because I love you. Because when I was very young, very foolish, and very much alone—you remember?—you paid attention to me and, without seeming to, you opened for me the door to everything I love in the world.”

— Albert Camus, tr. by David Hapgood, from “The First Man,” c. 1994

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“Your face consumes my dreams.”

— Meleager, tr. by Peter Whigham, from The Greek Anthology; “Epigrams,”

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“…and I shall see you again and wrap my arms around you, like always, with all my soul, with all my heart.”

— César Vallejo, from The Selected Writings; “Abraham Valdelomar Has Died,”

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“Blood of my sweet unrest runs all the same—I am in love with you—”

— John Berryman, from The Heart Is Strange: Poems; “Selected Sonnets,”