“I feel, sometimes, like I have a map in my pocket that folds up, and I pull it out, and it’s bigger than the table, and there’s a thousand places to go with her.”
Tom Waits
more infosource: Interview with Terry Gross on Fresh Air, NPR, October 31, 2011. [full transcript here]
category: creative process, love, map, marriage, romance, travel
medium: Interview
“We headed home holding hands. For a moment I dropped back to watch him walk. His sailor’s gait always touched me. I knew one day I would stop and he would keep on going, but until then nothing could tear us apart.”
Patti Smith
more infosource: describing Robert Mapplethorpe, in Just Kids (New York: Ecco, 2010), 107.
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medium: memoir
“I love Peter as I’ve never loved anyone, and I tell myself he’s only going around with all those other girls to hide his feelings for me.”
Anne Frank
more infosource: The Diary of a Young Girl: the Definitive Edition, ed. by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler and trans. by Susan Massotty (New York: Random House, 1995), 16.
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category: adolescence, diary, love, romance, teenager, World War Two
medium: diary
“Now I understood that the same road was to bring us together again. Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.”
Willa Cather
more infosource: My Ántonia (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), 196.
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category: love, past, reunion, romance
medium: fiction
“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
“Abstractly cheering thought: the millions of people around the world who will tonight sleep together for the first time.”
Alain de Botton
more infosource: Twitter, 2:22 PM Jan 27, 2010 via web
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category: love, optimism, romance, sex, world
medium: social media
“I seem to spend my life missing you.”
Robert Lowell
more infosource: letter to Elizabeth Bishop, dated November 10, 1969, reprinted in Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010), 655.
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category: friendship, heartbreaking, life, love, romance
medium: letter
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