The feeling of your words will linger as time passes, but these memories will haunt me 'till the end of time.
Anne Sexton, from a letter featured in Anne Sexton; A Self-Portrait In Letters
Louise Glück, from Faithful and Virtuous Night: Poems; "A Foreshortened Journey,"
Everytime I see you, my heart skips a beat.
Everytime I see you, all those feelings come rushing back.
I thought I'll be over you, but I'm not.
I thought that writing about you might help me forget you-
I thought wrong.
Yannis Ritsos, trans. by Kimon Friar, from a poem featured in "Erotica: Love Poems,"
Marcel Proust, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Marcel Proust
March 28, 1913 Letters to Felice by Franz Kafka First published : 1973
Giuseppe Ungaretti, from a poem titled "Christmas," featured in Selection of Modern Italian Poetry
I would love to leave this world for some cosmic experience- death.
Susan Sontag, from a diary entry featured in Reborn: Journals & Notebooks, 1947 - 1963