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“To lovers, I devise their imaginary world, with whatever they may need, as the stars of the sky, the red, red roses by the wall, the snow of the hawthorn, the sweet strains of music, and aught else they may desire to figure to each other the lastingness and beauty of their love.”

World Love Needs May Desire Stars Sky Figures Sweet Wall Lovers Red Rose Snow Imaginary Strain Red Rose Imaginary World

Author:Williston Fish

“I'm glad I want everything in the world - good and bad - bitter and sweet - I want it all.”

World Want Desire Sweet Glad Bitter Good And Bad Briars

Book:Lovingly, Georgia: The Complete Correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe and Anita Pollitzer

Source: Lovingly, Georgia: The Complete Correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe and Anita Pollitzer

“I desire now to make no more pleas with Christ; verily, he hath not put me to a loss by what I suffer; he oweth me nothing; for in my bonds, how sweet and comfortable have the thoughts of him been to me, wherein I find a sufficient recompense of reward!.”

Desire Suffering Christ Loss Sweet Comfortable Rewards Sufficient Recompense

Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“I believe that You, O Jesus, are in the most holy Sacrament. I love You and desire You. Come into my heart. I embrace You. Oh, never leave me. May the burning and most sweet power of Your love, O Lord Jesus Christ, I beseech You, absorb my mind that I may die through love of Your love, Who were graciously pleased to die through love of my love.”

Mind Believe Heart May Desire Dies Jesus I Believe Christ Lord Love You Sweet My Heart Holy Jesus Christ Embrace Burning Sacraments Leaving Me Lord Jesus Christ Never Leave Me

Author:Francis of Assisi

“Ah, how sweet it is to love! Ah, how gay is young Desire! And what pleasing pains we prove When we first approach Love's fire!”

Love Firsts Pain Young Desire Fire Sweet Gay Prove Approach

Book:Sir Martin Mar-All. The tempest. An evening's love. Tyrannic love

Source: Sir Martin Mar-All. The tempest. An evening's love. Tyrannic love

“Everything desires not like but unlike: for example, the dry desires the moist, the cold the hot, the bitter the sweet, the sharp the blunt, the void the full, the full the void, and so of all other things; for the opposite is the food of the opposite, whereas like receives like receives nothing from like.”

Desire Example Sweet Cold Opposites Hot Bitter Dry Void Blunt

Book:The Complete Plato

Source: The Complete Plato

“That nervous energy that makes people like you and I want and go after everything in the world - bump our heads on all the hard walls and scratch our hands on all the briars - but it makes living great - doesn't it - I'm glad I want everything in the world - good and bad - bitter and sweet - I want it all and a lot of it too”

Source: Lovingly, Georgia: The Complete Correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe and Anita Pollitzer

“It is easy for desire to be caught like a bird in a net, its wings fouled and twisted, no longer free to cross back and forth between silence and word. Desire may also find itself so amputated by tradition and community that it wanders in a void with nothing to orient it, to shape or discipline it. Desire must find ways to navigate its bitter and sweet paradox: it moves toward but also always through and beyond every object.”

Way May Moving Desire Easy Community Silence Objects Sweet Discipline Shapes Bird Tradition Crosses Wings Caught Bitter Wander Paradox Void Twisted Back And Forth Navigate

Author:Wendy Farley

“Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, While the world's tide is bearing me along; Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me, Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.”

Ifs World Desire Forget Youth Sweet Forgiving Thee Maturity Tides Obscure Forgetfulness Sweet Love

Author:Emily Bronte

“How deep is our desire to do better than our mothers--to bring daughters into adulthood strong and fierce yet loving and gentle, adventurous and competitive but still nurturing and friendly, sweet yet sharp. We know as working women that we can't quite have it all, but that hasn't stopped us from wanting it all for them.”

Knows Stills Mother Desire Strong Work Sweet Daughter Gentle Friendly Fierce Adulthood Adventurous Nurturing Working Women

Author:Anne Roiphe