"The end / of passion / may refashion / a friend."

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Source : Mona Van Duyn (1993). “Firefall: poems”, Alfred A. Knopf

Mona Van Duyn

#Heartbreak Quotes #Passion Quotes #May Quotes

“I have been missing the point. The point is not knowing another person, or learning to love another person. The point is simply this: how tender can we bear to be? What good manners can we show as we welcome ourselves and others into our hearts?”

Source : The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood ch. 31 (1996)
“If there were one city I should pick to live in, it would be New York. It is a city where I walk down the street and feel anything is possible.”
“Perhaps it is while drinking tea that I most of all enjoy the sense of leisure.”
“Others, one suspects, are afraid that the crossing of space , and above all contact with intelligent but nonhuman races, may destroy the foundations of their religious faith . They may be right, but in any event their attitude is one which does not bear logical examination for a faith which cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.”
“Football is the last sacred ritual of our time.”
“The more you know, the more you owe.”
“My little notebooks were beginnings - they were the ground into which I dropped the seed... I would work in this way when I was out in the crowds, then put the stuff together at home.”
“Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity.”

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