Michael

“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.”
― Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

“They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars—on stars where no human race is.
I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places.”
― Robert Frost, The Poetry of Robert Frost

“Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.”
― Italo Calvino