Love Memory Poems And Quotes & Sayings

The languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! — Evelyn Waugh

Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way back to college; a newspaper photograph of war; a breast self-exam; the tooth fairy; Calvinist parents who beat up their children; a gesture of love; seeing oneself naked over age 50 in a set of bright hotel bathroom mirrors. — Sharon Olds

We do not find among the ancient Hebrews, Greeks, and the Orientals the same value placed on love because we do not find there the same positive value placed on suffering. Suffering was not the hallmark of seriousness; rather, seriousness was measured by one's ability to evade or transcend the penalty of suffering, by one's ability to achieve tranquillity and equilibrium. In contrast, the sensibility we have inherited identifies spirituality and seriousness with turbulence, suffering, passion. For two thousand years, among Christians and Jews, it has been spiritually fashionable to be in pain. Thus it is not love which we overvalue, but suffering - more precisely, the spiritual merits and benefits of suffering. — Susan Sontag

Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always. — Yves Saint-Laurent

I have learned that having a cause to fight for is a noble and rare thing to have. So be fearless and fight. — Abeer Allan

That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it. — James Russell Lowell

I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion. — Hani Furstenberg

Love and memory and thought and dream ~
My favorite poems have never been written in words. — Kij Johnson

HOrrible. The most horrible sound on earth. The sound of death and torture and the agonies of a burning hell," Lisle said. "Damn them. It's bagpipes. — Loretta Chase