CATHERINE'S POETIC MUSINGS
Here are some romantic quotes that I like to imagine Catherine thinking... "If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying: 'Because it was he; because it was me.'” – Michele de Montaigne "All that you are, all that I owe you, justifies my love, and nothing, not even you, would keep me from adoring you." – Marquis de Lafayette "Don’t ever think of the things you can’t give me – You’ve trusted me with the dearest heart of all – and it’s so damn much more than anybody else in the world has ever had." – Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald to F. Scott Fitzgerald ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Only she who attempts the absurd can acheive the impossible." - Anon "Twice or thrice I loved thee If I could take your troubles "...it doesn't matter who you love, or how you love, but that you love." - Rod McKuen "A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart." - William Shakespeare "My dear one is mine and I am his." - Song of Solomon 2:16 "He has the voice for love and the hands too; hands that know more than he does." - Marie Blumenthal "Paradise itself were dim and joyless if not shared with him." - Thomas Moore "These poor half-kisses kill me quite." - Michael Drayton "I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach..." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Never give up a dream because of the time it takes to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway." - Unknown You Come You come, when you feel my fear, to protect me. "I believe that if I should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footsteps." Strong Woman vs Woman of Strength "Yes, yours my love, is the right human face. There can be no happiness greater then I enjoyed this afternoon with you, I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life! We don't love qualities, we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualties. What really breaks the heart is taking away its dream.
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Before I knew thy face or name
So in a voice, so in shapeless flame,
Angels affect us oft, and worshipped be.
- John Donne
I would toss them into the sea,
But all these things I'm finding
I cannot build a mountain
Or catch a rainbow fair,
And the cares that infest the day
Shall fold their tents like Arabs,
And silently steal away.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You come, when you feel my grief, to comfort me.
Why don't
You come, when you feel my desire, to love me? - Ina Schaefer
- Benito Perez Galdos
A strong woman isn't afraid of anything...
A woman of strength shows courage in the midst of her fear.
A strong woman has faith she is strong enough for the journey...
A woman of strength has faith that it is in the journey that she will become strong!
- Anon
I in my mind had waited for this long,
Seeing the false and searching for the true,
Then found you as a traveller finds a place
Of welcome suddenly amid the wrong
Valleys and rocks and twisting roads." - Edwin Muir
Clasped in your arms, your voice mingling with mine, your eyes in mine, your heart upon my heart, our very souls welded together.
For me, there is no man on this earth but you.
The others I perceive only through your love. I enjoy nothing without you.
You are the prism through which the sunshine, the green landscape, and life itself, appear to me...
I need your kisses upon my lips, your love in my soul.
--Juliette Drouet
--Elizabeth Barrett Browning
--Jacques Maritain
--Pearl Buck
If you know of other appropriate quotes you'd like to see included, please email me the quote and author and I'll add them (and credit you, of course).
