Songs of longing!

And they will resound in my letters, just as they always have, sometimes loudly and sometimes secretly so that you alone can hear them… But they will also be different — different from how they used to be, these songs. For I have turned and found longing at my side, and I have looked into her eyes, and now she leads me with a steady hand.”

―from a letter to Lou Andreas-Salome

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Flowers, cold from the dew,
And autumn's approaching breath,
I pluck for the warm, luxuria...
ANNA AKHMATOVA They flee from me that sometime did me seek
With naked foot, stalking in my chamber.
I hav...
THOMAS WYATT

Most people write me off when they see me.
They do not know my story.
They say I am just a...
IDOWU KOYENIKAN

I Keep Six Honest Serving Men ..."

I keep six honest serving-men
(They taught me a...
RUDYARD KIPLING night has enveloped, to give me some relief
now invisible are walls of separation, and thy grie...
MIRZA SHARAFAT HUSSAIN BEIGH

So that you will hear me
my words
sometimes grow thin
as the tracks of the gulls on t...
PABLO NERUDA

Words

Be careful of words,
even the miraculous ones.
For the miraculous ...
ANNE SEXTON

I tend to have really interested conversations with employers. They enjoy my interviews and they alw...
CRYSTAL EVANS

Everything I have become,
everything I will ever accomplish
cannot compare to my most
KAMAND KOJOURI

You shall be my roots and
I will be your shade,
though the sun burns my leaves.

MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI

I hate you."
My sister said it different than she said it to my dad. She meant it with me.She ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Now they have a riddle.

- Criminal Minds
DEYTH BANGER

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LEIGH BARDUGO

Tonight I Can Write

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.

Write, for e...
PABLO NERUDA

The Children's Hour

Between the dark and the daylight,
When the night is beginning t...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

7am

They said that I’d forget you,
and I knew it wasn’t true.
But sometimes...
COCO J. GINGER

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.

Write, for instance: "The night is full of ...
PABLO NERUDA

Dad?" Jesus asked.
"Yes son?" God replied.
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ANTHONY T. HINCKS Movie. What's my favorite kind of movie?”
“Is there a point to this?”
“Please, Luc...
KAITLIN SCOTT

Slant narrowed his eyes. “Do the Clans walk alone into the final battle?”
Half Moon flatten...
ERIN HUNTER

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.

Write, for example,'The night is shattered
an...
PABLO NERUDA

You are a slow learner, Winston."
"How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front o...
GEORGE ORWELL I’d rather be a heart,
keeping my body alive and well
although I tend to get lost someti...
HKL

The season was waning fast
Our nights were growing cold at last
I took her to bed with sil...
ROMAN PAYNE

eat, baby.
eat.
chew.
please.
I know it hurts. I know it doesn’t feel good. CAITLYN SIEHL

What shapes the best in us dies when the best education dies! The best in us shall always be undermi...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

Can I tell my daughter that I loved her father? This was the man who rubbed my feet at night. He pra...
AMY TAN The following are not my words, i have seen it some where . But i wish to share it here for every on...
ANOOP ASHOK

To the most inconsiderate asshole of a friend,
I’m writing you this letter because I know tha...
CECELIA AHERN

I am here because there is no refuge,
Finally, from myself,
Until I confront myself in the eye...
RICHARD BEAUVAIS

Let my heiress have full rights,
Live in my house, sing songs that I composed.
Yet how slo...
ANNA AKHMATOVA

Might I,” quavered Mary, “might I have a bit of earth?”

In her eagerness she did no...
FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT

You were dancing with Yuki and I looked at you. And you turned away and held her closer. Why did you...
APRILYNNE PIKE

Promise me we'll stay together, okay?" His eyes are once again the clear blue of a perfectly transpa...
LAUREN OLIVER

As I said, you have mistaken me for another. London is full of drab little peahens, sir. Now, then, ...
CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE Villanelle - Roland Leighton

Violets from Plug Street Wood,
Sweet, I send you overse...
ROLAND LEIGHTON Glossa

Time goes by, time comes along,
All is old and all is new;
What is righ...
MIHAI EMINESCU Just looking at them
I grow greedy, as if they were
freshly baked loaves
waiting on t...
LINDA PASTAN

And now, for something completely the same:

Wasted time and wasted breath,
's what I...
WILL ADVISE I'm Writing my stoy. But i'm also plotting my escape from this prison cell.

This is my pl...
CAROLEE DEAN

Looking for Your Face

From the beginning of my life
I have been looking for your fac...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI I was told
The average girl begins to plan her wedding at the age of 7
She picks the color...
RUDY FRANCISCO

So, having found a lady, could you not have come to her aid, or left her alone? Why drag her into yo...
NEIL GAIMAN

I have studied many times
The marble which was chiseled for me—
A boat with a furled sai...
EDGAR LEE MASTERS And I understand my sisters when they say every woman has a story that's been told a maxim of one so...
MARK GONZALES

I pity the woman who will love you
when I am done. She will show up
to your first date wit...
CLEMENTINE VON RADICS

Stop thinking, and end your problems.
What difference between yes and no?
What difference ...
LAO TZU — This world is full of trouble, umfundisi.
— Who knows it better?
— Yet you believ...
ALAN PATON MOM

Wholeheartedly,
She loved me-
And inspired me-
With transcending devot...
GIORGE LEEDY

Nothing belongs to itself anymore.
These trees are yours because you once looked at them.
KAMAND KOJOURI

Now I only need to look
out at them through my sky-blue eyes.
They see their own ill will<...
MARGARET ATWOOD

Some, often without knowing it, suffered from being deprived of the
company of friends and fro...
ALBERT CAMUS

She holds herself with such reserve. She smiles, but the smile doesn't reach her eyes, even in the c...
LAUREN MYRACLE Nothing they say or do can ever change the man you are,” Trinity continued. “A man I love with a...
C.A. HARMS

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-- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II

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You are real," she said to herself.

"Aye." His voice was deep and resonant, a caress in h...
J.R. WARD

Your children are not your children.
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KAHLIL GIBRAN

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JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

When I got back to Marceline, I did not conceal from her how tedious I found all these acquaintances...
ANDRé GIDE Now he haunts me seldom: some fierce umbilical is broken,
I live with my own fragile hopes and ...
JAMES KAVANAUGH

Yawn...

I believe that I love sleep
much more than anybody I’ve ever
met.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I am a creature of the Fey
Prepare to give your soul away
My spell is passion and it is ...
HEATHER ALEXANDER Josephine placed the cloth back in the basin then filled a cup with cold water. Helping Laurin sit u...
SUZAN TISDALE Something about you caught me by surprise
Though I always knew you’d be my demise.
R.S. GREY It offends me when you doubt my love.
These jealousies are unwarranted.
If only you lived ...
KAMAND KOJOURI They have not forgotten the Mysteries,' she said, ‘they have found them too difficult. They want a...
MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY I wouldn't mind a sister either."
"Any chance of that happening?"
"I can't see what would ...
DEREK LANDY [T.J.] Without thinking, I held them out to her. She stopped laughing, and looked at me like she was...
TRACEY GARVIS-GRAVES He wanted you to be the small, quiet girl from Abnegation," Four says softly. "He hurt you because y...
VERONICA ROTH My wife and I lived all alone,
contention was our only bone.
I fought with her, she fought w...
ROBERT CREELEY I love you, Jamie,” I said again, but this time she wasn’t frightened. Instead our eyes met acro...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Reach me down my Tycho Brahe, I would know him when we meet,
When I share my later science, sitti...
SARAH WILLIAMS It was two weeks after the day she turned eighteen
All dressed in white
Going to the churc...
CARRIE UNDERWOOD Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size<...
MAYA ANGELOU I want someone to love me for me, faults and all.
Someone who cant fall asleep without being he...
JOSé N. HARRIS And recite to them the news of Abraham
When he said to his father and his people: What do you ...
QURAN Did you know sometimes it frightens me--
when you say my name and I can't see you?
will yo...
EMILIE AUTUMN Dreaming at the Ballet"

The truth is, goddesses are lousy in bed.
They will do anyth...
JACK GILBERT Your children are not your children.
They are sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. ...
KAHLIL GIBRAN You who never arrived
in my arms, Beloved, who were lost
from the start,
I don't e...
RAINER MARIA RILKE I respond to many names.
Sometimes I am different people.
Sometimes I am the me that howls...
JESSICA BATES But I was young
and didn’t know better
and someone should have told me to capture every ...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON The aching in my chest
isn't because I miss you,
it's realizing that you have
becom...
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Though I had my driver'...
JERRY SPINELLI [The Old Astronomer to His Pupil]

Reach me down my SARAH WILLIAMS Afterward, Isabel drove me home and I shut myself in the study with Rilke, and I read and I wanted.<...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I'm lonely,
Yes! I'm so lonely.
I'm Just a sad tear that came out of the depths of pain....
EYDEN I. Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You
take delight in vexing me. Y...
JANE AUSTEN Artemis smiled. "You have done well, my lieutenant. You have made me proud, and all those Hunters wh...
RICK RIORDAN Her phone beeps and she pulls it out again. She frowns.

I give her a side-eye. “Everyth...
ASHLEY POSTON Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is,
When time is broke and no proportion kept!
So is ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The Janus Guard will also be out that night,” he said, one hand reaching out to squeeze her should...
LESLEY LIVINGSTON I turn to head outside when the boys make their way back into the house. Kel stops in the doorway an...
COLLEEN HOOVER I said, I want to tell you something.
She said, you can tell me tomorrow.
I had never told...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER I always loved you, Will, whatever you did. And now I need you to do for me what I cannot do for mys...
CASSANDRA CLARE I used to hold you as my everything,
And so I built my castles in your lands,
But you prov...
TERRENCE ALONZO CRAFT You know this girl.
Her hair is neither long nor short nor light nor dark. She parts it precise...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN In My Daughter's Eyes Lyrics
In my daughter's eyes I am a hero
I am strong and wise and I ...
MARTINA MCBRIDE You can capture this body of mine, take away my freedom and enslave me.
You may even have the ...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Father never approved of my toys
Saw them as child's playthings
I was a child

T...
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RAINER MARIA RILKE A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've bee...
RAINER MARIA RILKE I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone
RAINER MARIA RILKE So don't be frightened, dear friend, if a sadness confronts you larger than any you have ever known,...
RAINER MARIA RILKE there is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has...
RAINER MARIA RILKE [A]t bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for on...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for ho...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.
RAINER MARIA RILKE To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the...
RAINER MARIA RILKE You who never arrived
in my arms, Beloved, who were lost
from the start,
I don't e...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Loving isn't merging, surrendering, uniting with the other. Rather, it's a kind of solitude; of prof...
RAINER MARIA RILKE The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the co...
RAINER MARIA RILKE To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you.
Seal my ears, I'll go on hearing you.
And witho...
RAINER MARIA RILKE It is also good to love: because love is difficult. For one human being to love another human being:...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly...
RAINER MARIA RILKE God...sat down for a moment when the dog was finished in order to watch it... and to know that it wa...
RAINER MARIA RILKE I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but t...
RAINER MARIA RILKE There are quantities of human faces, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
RAINER MARIA RILKE I am, O Anxious One. Don’t you hear my voice
surging forth with all my earthly feelings?
RAINER MARIA RILKE Do you remember…(doesn’t that appear in each of my letters?), do you remember that you spoke of ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Here is the time for the sayable, here
is its home.
Speak and attest. More than ever
RAINER MARIA RILKE What goes on in your innermost being is worth all your love, this is what you must work on however y...
RAINER MARIA RILKE But this is what ... people are so often and disastrously wrong in doing: they (who by their very na...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rud...
RAINER MARIA RILKE It is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case t...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circums...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those...
RAINER MARIA RILKE And you, Clara Westhoff, how simply and well you endured, lived through the experience, and made it ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE, …As one puts a handkerchief before pent-in-breath-
no: as one presses it against a wound
RAINER MARIA RILKE …Lovers were not, Marina, *are* not permitted to know
destruction so deeply. Must be as if th...
RAINER MARIA RILKE ...We of the here-and-now are not for a moment satisfied in the world of time, nor are we bound in i...
RAINER MARIA RILKE, Pero en esto yerran los jóvenes tan a menudo y tan gravemente. Ellos, en cuya naturaleza está el n...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Liebe ist schwer. Liebhaben von Mensch zu Mensch: das ist vielleicht das Schwerste, was uns aufgegeb...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Mit deinen Augen, welche müde kaum
von der verbrauchten Schwelle sich befrein,
hebst du g...
RAINER MARIA RILKE think: the hero prolongs himself, even his falling
was only a pretext for being, his latest reb...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Ninguém o pode aconselhar ou ajudar, — ninguém.
Não há senão um caminho. Procure entrar ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE After Rilke's Letters
-- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II

this is my letter to a young ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE If you think your world isn’t poetic enough, or exciting enough to tell a story about, that’s no...
RAINER MARIA RILKE How they are all about, these gentlemen
In chamberlains' apparel, stocked and laced,
Like ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even no...
RAINER MARIA RILKE You, God, who live next door--

If at times, through the long night, I trouble you
wi...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable t...
RAINER MARIA RILKE A kind of memory that tells us
that what we're now striving for was
once
nearer and ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE O smile, going where? O upturned look:
new, warm, receding surge of the heart--;
alas, we ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and yet a little way beyond the o...
RAINER MARIA RILKE If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those th...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Whenever one speaks of lonely people one takes too much for granted. One thinks people all know what...
RAINER MARIA RILKE And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far into the futu...
RAINER MARIA RILKE So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp.
RAINER MARIA RILKE I live my life in growing orbits which move out over this wondrous world, I am circling around God, ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE I think of you at any time of the day and my worried thoughts accompany all your steps. The slightes...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Wenn der Alltag dir arm erscheint, klage ihn nicht an – klage dich an, daß du nicht stark genug b...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Whoever has no house now, will never have one.
Whoever is alone will stay alone,
will si...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Yet, no matter how deeply I go down into myself, my God is dark, and like a webbing made of a hundre...
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