Are you not ashamed to reserve for yourself only the remnant of life, and to set apart for wisdom only that time which cannot be devoted to any business? How late it is to begin to live just when we must cease to live!

A younger you and a younger me
Meeting at the serpentine
I am yours, you are mine

I still pretend you're only out of sight
In another room, smiling at your phone

Your shyness stoked my boldness
"Shall we go in?" I smiled
Your hand warmed walking through the gallery

I work all day, and get half-drunk at night.
Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare.
In time the curtain-edges will grow light.
Till then I see what’s really always there

"Be courageous, ma chérie. It is no doubt the last time that I write you. Today, I will have lived."

“Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.”

“And when it is accomplished — behold! — all the truth of life is there: a moment of vision, a sigh, a smile — and the return to an eternal rest.”

“One has to say things. The moment passes, and then you're alone again.”

“Eventually all things merge into one, and a river flows through it.”

signed char lotte

Wylit, wylit, Lywelyn
Wylit waed pe gwelit hyn.
Ein calon gan estron ŵr,
Ein coron gan goncwerwr,
A gwerin o ffafrgarwyr
Llariaidd eu gwên lle'r oedd gwŷr.

“An economy primarily driven by growth must generate discontent.”

“We both step and do not step into the same, we both are and are not”

“We should often blush at our noblest deeds if the world were to see all their underlying motives.”

“Our fear of death seems to me to be an error of evolution.”

And now and then
If we must start again
Well, we will know for sure
That I will love you

“We are a way for the Cosmos to know itself.”