“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.” WorldLoveNeedsMayDesireStarsSkyFiguresSweetWallLoversRedRoseSnowImaginaryStrainRed RoseImaginary World Author:Williston Fish
“Outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness. I look down into the warm, earthy world. Into a nest of lovers' beds, baby cribs, meal tables, all the solid commerce of life in this earth, and feel apart, enclosed in a wall of glass.” WorldFeelsLooksEarthStarsWallBabyColdLoversBedTablesGlassesWarmAwfulMealsEmptinessCommerceHelplessDetachmentNestsOutcastNumbness Book:The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962 Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962
“To express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of Kindred tones. To express the thought of a brow by the radiance of light tone against a somber background; to express hope by some star, the eagerness of a soul by a sunset radiance.” TwoSoulLightStarsColorExpressionLoversBackgroundsMysteriousToneOppositionSunsetVibrationsBrowsRadianceKindredEagernessComplementarySomberMinglingTwo LoversComplementary Colors Author:Vincent Van Gogh
“Make no mistake, your relationships are the heaviest components in your life. All those negotiations and arguments and secrets, the compromises. The slower we move the faster we die. Make no mistake, moving is living. Some animals were meant to carry each other. To live symbiotically over a lifetime. Star crossed lovers, monogamous swans. We are not swans. We are sharks.” MovingDiesStarsAnimalSecretMistakeLoversArgumentLifetimeCompromiseFasterOur RelationshipNegotiationComponentsSharksSwansStar Crossed Lovers Author:Ryan Bingham
“All that is beautiful, and all that looks on beauty with eyes filled with fire, like a lover's eyes: all of this is yours; you gave it to me, sunlight! all these stars are yours; you gave them to me, skies!” LooksEyeBeautifulStarsFireSkyLoversFilledSunlight Author:Conrad Aiken
“Artists and their subjects are the star-crossed lovers of the world. They recognize each other on impact.” WorldArtistStarsSubjectsLoversImpactStar Crossed Lovers Author:Sara Genn
“When the great markets by the sea shut fastAll that calm Sunday that goes on and on:When even lovers find their peace at last,And Earth is but a star, that once had shone.” EarthLastsStarsSeaGoes OnLoversCalmSunday Author:James Elroy Flecker
“I jumped in the river, what did I see? Black-eyed angels swam with me A moon full of stars and astral cars And all the figures I used to see All my lovers were there with me All my past and futures And we all went to heaven in a little row boat There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt.” LittlesPastUsedHeavenStarsBlackDoubtCarFiguresLoversAngelRiversBoatMy PastMy LoverRadioheadRow Boats Author:Thom Yorke
“Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility.” StoriesFatherStarsCenturyDangerHumilityTaughtSonHugeKingsHeroLoversDramaAncientExpandingTaught UsHubrisFather And SonStar Crossed LoversPrimacyMartyredPantheon Author:Tom Hiddleston
“Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.” LoveHeartFatherHeavenStarsRoomsSonBrotherLoversAffection Author:Victor Hugo