— Adonis, from Singular in a Plural Form, tr. by Khaled Mattawa
“I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
Naomi Shihab Nye, from You & Yours: Poems; "Stay," originally published in 2005
“Think new things every day.”
— Democritus, Fragments, B158
/ˈmo͞onˌstrək/
adjective unable to think or act normally, especially because of being in love.
“—I have a childlike heart”
— Sappho, Fragments (tr. by Mary Barnard)
“People usually fail when they are on the verge of success. So give as much care to the end as to the beginning; then there will be no failure.”
— Laozi, Daodejing, Feng & English tr. (Ch 64)
“I sleep, I sleep / too long,”
— Olga Broumas, Beginning with O; “Sleeping Beauty”
“And I can’t be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.”
— J.D. Salinger (via quotemadness)
Oscar Wilde, from At Verona
“We look up at the same stars, and see such different things.”
— George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords (via wordsnquotes)