For A Moment Only

I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only.

I would like to be that unnoticed & the necessary.

--Margaret Atwood

One Book

Are we not like two volumes in one book?

---Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, 1872

Carpe Diem

Carpe Diem

O mistress mine, where are you roaming?

O stay and hear! your true-love's coming
That can sing both high and low; Trip no further, pretty sweeting, Journey's end in lovers' meeting-- Every wise man's son doth know. What is love? 'tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter; What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies no plenty,-- Then come kiss me, Sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure.

William Shakespeare

To Love Is Everything

To love is nothing.

To be loved is something.

To love, and be loved, is everything.

--T. Tolis V.

An Egyptian Love Lyric

Your love has gone all
through my body
Like honey in water,
As a drug is mixed in spices
As water is mingled with wine.