Sīyì ⸙࿔

“because to influence a person is to give one's own soul.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Krishna: The night is late, the fair one timorous and fearful: When will she of the olifant gait be here? The path is filled with dreadful snakes, How many dangers do her path beset, and she with feet so tender! To the feet of Providence I trust her, Success attend the Beauty's tryst! The sky is black, the earth is sodden,—My heart is anxious for her danger. Heavy the darkness in every airt,—Her feet may slip, she cannot find the path: Her glance beguiles each living thing Lakshmī comes in human form!”
― Vidyapati Thakura, Vidyapati Bangiya Padabali: Songs of the love of Radha and Krishna

“Farewell sweet earth and northern sky,
for ever blest, since here did lie
and here with lissom limbs did run
beneath the Moon, beneath the Sun,
Lúthien Tinúviel
more fair than Mortal tongue can tell.
Though all to ruin fell the world
and were dissolved and backward hurled;
unmade into the old abyss,
yet were its making good, for this―
the dusk, the dawn, the earth, the sea―
that Lúthien for a time should be.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion

“You and I will always be friends."

"Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray