It is for this,
It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write. Erica Jong
Parting
My life closed twice
My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell. Emily Dickinson
It is never good
It is never good dwelling on good-byes … it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting. Elizabeth Bibesco
Like a plank of
Like a plank of driftwood Tossed on the watery main, Another plank encountered, Meets, touches, parts again; So tossed, and drifting ever, On life’s unresting sea, Men meet, and greet, and sever, Parting eternally. Edwin Arnold
But fate ordains that
But fate ordains that dearest friends must part. Edward Young
Will our souls, hurrying
Will our souls, hurrying on in diverse paths, unite once more, as if the interval had been a dream? Edward George, Baron George
Beware of parting! The
Beware of parting! The true sadness is not in the pain of the parting; it is in the when and the how you are to meet again with the face about to vanish from your view. Edward George, Baron George
i like my body
i like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more. i like your body. i like what it does, i like its hows. i like to feel the spine of your body and its bones, and the trembling -firm-smooth ness and which i … Read more
… there are few
… there are few things that can reconcile us fully to our parting with a world of which the longest life can see so little and whose beauties have so extraordinary a variety. Freya Stark
Parting with friends is
Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place. Frank Herbert