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All Love Remembering Time Futility Forgetting Inevitability Remembering The Past Renunciation Roses Stars

Famous John Daniel Thieme Quotes

“. . . This is not the same river at my fingertips. There are no paths, no sunken roads familiar in the forest, by which we can retrace our steps, by which we can escape by which we can reclaim and return, or hear the child’s song running in the timothy . . .”

Time Disappointment Cant Escaping Futility Remembering Inevitability Remembering The Past Returning Retrace Reclaiming

Book:paulinskill hours and other poems

Source: paulinskill hours and other poems

“To forget would mean the things we never knew had never waited to be known, never waited to be forgotten, had never been; waiting beneath the long dead stars in time. . .”

Love Time Waiting Forgotten Forgetting Futility Remembering

Book:paulinskill hours and other poems

Source: paulinskill hours and other poems

“. . .the sorrows of the heart yearn to be erased, for one final atonement finite and forgetting and whole—but time in its preserving will not permit forgetting; destroying only when we can no longer beg or argue with time to preserve the brief benisons a few moments longer than our sins”

Time Sorrow Preservation Blessings Forgetting Atonement Remembering Renunciation Inevitability Sins Pleading

Book:paulinskill hours and other poems

Source: paulinskill hours and other poems

“. . .though the names of lovers are forgotten in time, their names written across the sky as ogham threads are traced between the stars”

Love Past Time Stars Lovers Forgetting Remembering Remembering The Past Remembering Loved Ones

Book:paulinskill hours and other poems

Source: paulinskill hours and other poems

“I wish to go down under the waters— the cool, crystalline waters that I knew, where all that is, here, existing, is is only to be lost within the susurrations and the rumours of water and the evening star we wait for...”

Waiting Water Loss Suicide Anticipation Renunciation Loss Of Faith Lost In Time

Book:paulinskill hours and other poems

Source: paulinskill hours and other poems

“. . .in your light, had I learned to love, here in your beauty, could I speak knowing of this space close within as the breath held inside a garden rose, there— there is no time.”

Love Light Time Beauty Intimacy Yearning Breath Roses Timelessness

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“a few words spoken beneath the moon, love may be, but I write your name in the celestial dust that lingers in the air, above the veilchenblau roses, callow and pale”

Love Inspiration Dedication Infatuation Roses

Book:the ghost dancers

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“beneath the stars that drift; she sighed and said "Every tale of a love can only be a tale of ghosts that linger in these spaces we can never hold,"—as the wind gave echo”

Love Stars Sadness Lost Love Parting Remembering Ghost Stories Ghost Story

Book:the ghost dancers

Source: the ghost dancers

“we lived depravity and called it truth, silencing our dreaming, and our love, discarding things holy.”

Abandonment Regrets Discarded Depravity Silenced

Book:paulinskill hours and other poems

Source: paulinskill hours and other poems

“. . .our whispered words, faintly in the darkness, dissolving within the trees—then, fleeting words of consolation would not suffice if feigned, and flippant words confessed reluctance—our words were meaningless uttered on the wind. . .”

Love Wind Words Meaningless Confession Fleeting Whispering Impermanence Futility Uselessness Whispers Ignoring

Book:paulinskill hours and other poems

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“those whom love has held, has held here in time curious, in this labyrinth of roses—it will go on holding, though in cruelty—of stars we could not reach for, but still remembered.”

Love Bitterness Holding On Futility Breakups Breaking Up Love Lost Can T Let Go Never Be The Same Reconcilation

Book:the ghost dancers

Source: the ghost dancers