“What is desire?- The impulse to make someone else complete?”
Theodore Roethke. From ‘Four for Sir John Davies.’
“In everyone there sleeps
a sense of life lived according to love.
To some it means the difference they
could make
By loving others, but across most it sweeps
As all they might have done
had they been loved.”
Philip Larkin. From ‘Faith Healing.’
” A mistress should be like a
little country retreat near the town,
not to dwell in constantly,
but only for a night and away.”
William Wycherley.
“Love is begot by fancy,
bred by ignorance, by expectation fed,
destroyed by knowledge, and, at best,
lost in the moment ‘tis possessed.”
‘George Granville, ‘Love.”
