If I should meet thee, After long years, How should I greet thee? With silence and tears - from George Gordon, Lord Byron "When We Two Parted"
I would rather have been deprived of my friend than of my grief - St Augustine
I bless the light, I bless the light that lights on you believe me. And though you're gone, You're with me every single day, believe me. Days I?ll remember all my life - from Days by Ray Davies
I am cold and rainy, I am dirty as a glass roof in a train station, I feel like an empty cast iron exhibition...heavy with proverbs and corrections, confusing the star-dazed tourists, with our incomparable sense of loss - from Queen Victoria, Leonard Cohen
From the first day on which I saw her face, In this lifetime, until that sight of her, My song has never stopped from following her. But now must my pursuit cease following, Her beauty further in my poetry, Like any artist come to his full limit. So I leave her to nobler heralding, Than the sounding of my trumpet which here draws Its arduous subject matter to a close - from Dante - Paradiso XXX
Even though she sleeps upon your satin; Even though she wakes you with a kiss. Do not say the moment was imagined; Do not stoop to strategies like this. Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving; Then say goodbye to Alexandra lost - from Alexandra Leaving, Leonard Cohen (Hydra, Greece, September 1999)
Come to me in the silence of the night, Come to me in the speaking silence of a dream, Come back in tears, O memory, hope, love of finished years, Speak low, lean low, As long ago, my love, how long ago from Christina Rossetti, Echo http://www.potw.org/archive/potw152.html
As Freud said, what links people is not love but hatred. Love comes later, from institutions.? Not from the nature of man? ?Of course not,? he looks incredulous.- interview with Bernard-Henri L
And though our separation, it pierced me to the heart, She still lives inside of me, we've never been apart. If you get close to her, kiss her once for me, I always have respected her for busting out and gettin' free - from If You See Her, Say Hello - Bob Dylan
And think not you can guide the course of love. For love, if it finds you worthy, shall guide your course - Kahil Gibran