VINCENT'S POETIC MUSINGS This first set of quotes are what I like to imagine Vincent might be thinking when he thinks of Catherine. "I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self-respect and it’s these things I’d believe in even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be… I love her and that’s the beginning of everything." – F. Scott Fitzgerald "A few days ago I thought I loved you, but since I last saw you I feel I love you a thousand times more. All the time I have known you I adore you more each day; that just shows how wrong was La Bruyere’s maxim that love comes all at once. Everything in Nature has its own life and different stages of growth. I beg you, let me see some of your faults: be less beautiful, less graceful, less kind, less good…" - Napoleon Bonaparte to Josephine Bonaparte "There is one thing of which I am so sure that nothing will ever change it – that you will always be exquisitely lovable – whether I win you or not – I have given my heart to one of God’s finest creatures – that every thought and memory of you will be sweet and gentle… I have done myself the highest possible honor in giving you my heart." – Vachel Lindsay Music I heard with you was more than music, "If loved could have saved you, you would have lived forever." - Anon "Beauty never slumbers; all is in her name..." - Edna St. Vincent Millay Look for me by moonlight; "The pains of love are sweeter far "When silence speaks for love, she has much to say." - Richard Garrett "If I know what love is, it is because of you." - Herman Hesse "How lucky I am to have known somebody who was so hard to say goodbye to." - Unknown "And if I lose thy love, I lose my all." - Alexander Pope "Thou art to me a delicious torment." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "But to see her was to love her, and love her forever." - Robert Burns "Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman." - C.S. Lewis A Heart's Friend Fair is the white star of twilight, The way to love anything is to realize it might be lost. - G.K. Chesterton -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This next set of quotes are ones that I believe pertain especially to Vincent himself. Each one must find a quiet place "Man loves company, even if it is only that of a smoldering candle." - G.C. Lictenberg I was born to catch dragons in thier dens And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, "Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment." - Claude Monet
A Book He ate and drank the precious words, "It is the sign of a noble heart when a young man burns with a flame of love." - Italian Proverb "The choice between accepting ourselves as self-sufficient and reaching out to another is an eternal conflict... It is as difficult to be alone as it is to be intimate." - Arthur D. Colman "There is only one thing greater than my fear - that is my love. My love will always conquer my fear - but it can't do it immediately. It needs the full force of my love to do it and it takes days for that to emerge out of it dark hiding places." - John Middleton Murry "The hardest thing to do is watch the one you love, love somebody else." - Anon "It is that my friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges, and enables me to walk serene and happy into the shadow cast by my deprivation." - Helen Keller
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And bread I broke with you was more than bread.
Now that I am without you, all is desolate;
And all that once was so beautiful is dead.
- Conrad Aiken
Watch for me by moonlight;
I'll come to thee by moonlight,
Though hell should bar the way!
- from "The Higwayman" by Alfred Noyes
Than all other pleasures are." - John Dryden
And the sky clear at the days end;
But she is fairer and she is dearer
She, my heart's friend.
Fair is the white star of twilight,
Amid the moon roving to the sky's end;
But she is fairer, better worth loving
She, my heart's friend. - Shoshone Love Song
If grass can grow through cement, love can find you anywhere. - Cher
Within his heart where he may go
To find himself, and for a space
Drink deeply where still waters lay.
-- Inga Caldwell
And pick flowers
To tell tales and laugh away the morning
To drift and dream like a lazy stream
And walk barefoot across sunshine days.
- James Kavanaugh
And only tears can heal.
- Oscar Wilde
His spirit grew robust;
He knew no more that he was poor,
Nor that his frame was dust.
He danced along the dingy days,
And this bequest of wings
Was but a book. What liberty
A loosened spirit brings! - Emily Dickinson
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).
