“Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.”
Antonio Porchia
more infosource: Voices: Aphorisms, selected and translated by W. S. Merwin (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988), 22.
category: absence, breakup, farewell, goodbye, grief
medium: aphorism
“When are you sailing so I can meet you at the dock with champagne?”
Robert Lowell
more infosource: letter to Elizabeth Bishop, dated April 24, 1952, in Words in Air (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010), 137.
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category: bon voyage, champagne, dock, farewell, friendship, goodbye, ocean, romance, sailing, sea
medium: letter
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