How pale is all reality next to the mere dream of you; my sweetest sunlit desire grows and is drowned and refound and lost again in the vibrating possibilities I feel in the looks of your half-closed eyes, and it is no longer my tongue but my soul that caresses you
Natalie Clifford Barney in a letter to Eva Palmer dated 21 December 1900, as quoted in Wild Heart: A Life (2002) by Suzanne Rodriguez














