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brave love, dreamnot of staunching such strict flame, but come,lean to my wound; burn on, burn on.

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How we need that security. How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I n...more

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Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it

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I am inhabited by a cry. Nightly it flaps outLooking, with its hooks, for something to love.

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O love, how did you get here?--Nick and the Candlestick

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What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,’ and, ‘What a man is is an arrow into the future and a what a woman is is the ...more

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I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.

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I need more than anything right now what is, of course, most impossible, someone to love me, to be with me at night when I wake up in shuddering horro...more

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Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I could...more

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If only I can find him... the man who will be intelligent, yet physically magnetic and personable. If I can offer that combination, why shouldn't I ex...more

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I feel good with my husband: I like his warmth and his bigness and his being-there and his making and his jokes and stories and what he reads and how ...more

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Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries...more