Languageenfleur - Ominous Or Premonitory?

Louise Glück, from “Blue Rotunda.”

Novalis, Heinrich von Ofterdingen: A Romance [originally published 1802]

Albert Camus, The Fall Originally published: 1956

“When we’re most intense—who’ll flinch?”

— Arthur Rimbaud, from Selected Poems & Prose; “Phrases,”

“People usually fail when they are on the verge of success. So give as much care to the end as to the beginning; then there will be no failure.”

— Laozi, Daodejing, Feng & English tr. (Ch 64)

i think the reason why the ring finger is the ring finger is romantic

“…One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.”

— Hamlet (Hamlet, Act I scene v)

Yes, I did write in my letter that I would wait for you forever. I didn’t mean exactly “forever,” I just included it for the rhythm.

— Dunya Mikhail, from “Non-Military Statements,” The War Works Hard tr. Elizabeth Winslow

“…It’s as if my heart is surrounded by a hundred petals.”

“Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.”

— Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus