Carr

“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
― Herman Hesse

“Here I love you and the horizon hides you in vain.
I love you still among these cold things.
Sometimes my kisses go on those heavy vessels
that cross the sea towards no arrival.
I see myself forgotten like those old anchors.
The piers sadden when the afternoon moors there.
My life grows tired, hungry to no purpose.
I love what I do not have. You are so far.
My loathing wrestles with the slow twilights.
But night comes and starts to sing to me.”
― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

“stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“I've cared for heaps of people, but not to marry them' she said. 'I suppose I'm too fastidious. all my life I've wanted somebody I could look up to, somebody great and big and splendid. Most men are so small.'

'What d;you mean by splendid?' Hewet asked. 'People are-nothing more.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out