« We must have one love, one great love in our life, since it gives us an alibi for all the moments when we are filled with despair.” (Albert Camus)
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« Two sparks do not make a fire. They only give the impulse, not the passion that ignites infinity. » (DantéBéa)
Pablo Neruda
« He dies slowly
He who avoids passion
And its whirlwind of emotions
Those that restore light
in the eyes
And mend wounded hearts. » (Pablo Neruda)
Georges Bataille
« My rage to love looks out on death like a window on the courtyard. » (Georges Bataille)
Emmanuel Kant
« The ridiculous thing is that we cultivate appearances against others to the point of imagining that they are the truth… » (Emmanuel Kant)
James Joyce
« Nora, my faithful darling, my little schoolgirl rascal with sweet eyes, be my whore, my mistress, as much as you please (my little wanker mistress! my little fuck whore!) you are still my splendid wildflower of the hedges, my rain-drenched midnight-blue flower. » (James Joyce, Letters to Nora)
Pablo Neruda
« Your eyes don’t fit in your face,
Your eyes don’t fit on the ground.
There are countries, there are rivers
in your eyes,
my country is in your eyes,
I walk for them,
they give light to the world
where I walk. » (Pablo Neruda)
Pierre de Ronsard
« Mignonne, allons voir si la rose
Qui ce matin avait éclose
Sa robe de pourpre au Soleil,
N’a point perdu cette vêprée
Les plis de sa robe pourprée,
Et son teint au votre pareil.
Las ! voyez comme en peu d’espace,
Mignonne, elle a dessus la place
Las ! las ses beautés laissé choir !
Ô vraiment marâtre Nature,
Puisqu’une telle fleur ne dure
Que du matin jusques au soir !
Donc, si vous me croyez, mignonne,
Tandis que votre âge fleuronne
En sa plus verte nouveauté,
Cueillez, cueillez votre jeunesse :
Comme à cette fleur la vieillesse
Fera ternir votre beauté. »
Pierre de Ronsard (à Cassandre)
« Mignonne, let’s go see if the rose
Which this morning had bloomed
Her purple dress in the Sun,
Has not lost this evening
The folds of her purple dress,
And her complexion like yours.
Alas! see how in a small space,
Mignonne, she has left her place
Alas! alas her beauties fall!
O truly stepmother Nature,
Since such a flower lasts
Only from morning to evening!
So, if you believe me, darling,
While your age blossoms
In its greenest novelty,
Pluck, pluck your youth:
Like this flower, old age
Will tarnish your beauty. »
Pierre de Ronsard (to Cassandre)
Khalil Gibran
« Love is the only flower which grows and blossoms without the help of the seasons. » (Khalil Gibran)
Louis Cernuda
« … Freedom I know only the freedom of being imprisoned in someone
whose name I cannot hear without shuddering;
someone for whom I forget this petty existence
for whom day and night are for me what I want,
… With the freedom of love,
the only freedom that exalts me,
the only freedom for which I die… »(Louis Cernuda)
Boris Pasternak
« If they loved each other, it was not out of necessity, by succumbing to the “flame of passion“, according to a false image. If they loved each other, it was because everything around them wanted it: the earth under their feet, the sky above their heads, the clouds, the trees. »
(Boris Pasternak, Doctor Jivago)
Mathieu Boogaerts
« How many questions have you asked before
To yourself, millions, or even more?
But which one matters, and which no more?
How many answers?
Not even four
One, two
Only one, two
Maybe one, two, three
Not so many
How many you said that did you have in mind?
At least one hundred something of that kind
But how many instead did you happen to find?
Still in your head, not left behind
One, two
Only one, two
Maybe one, two, three
Not so many (one)
Not so many (one, two)
Not so many, no (one, two, three)
Matter really
What do you remember finally? »
Frida kahlo
« Don’t pay attention to me.
I come from another planet.
I always see horizons where you draw borders. » (Frida Kahlo)
Frida Kahlo
« Your absence germinates trembling in the sound of the clock;
in the pulse of light;
you breathe through the mirror. » (Frida Kahlo)
« Your soul sings when mine cries
and is written in the burning wind
in the sand of the dunes
in letters of fire.
The sky is the song of the earth.
The earth is your song
and my breath marries yours
to exalt this love
in a sigh. »
Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran. Mother and child 1919
Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran.The prophet 1923
Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran. Love 1921
Pablo Neruda
« My eyes went
behind a brunette
who was passing.
She was of black mother-of-pearl,
was purple grapes.
With her train of fire
she whipped my blood.
After all the girls
I always go like this.
A blonde passed
like a golden plant
swinging her charms.
And my mouth became
a wave that went
to discharge flashes
of blood on her chest.
After all the girls
I always go like this.
But towards you, without moving,
without seeing you, my distant one,
my blood, my kisses fly,
my brunette and clairette,
my big and my little one,
my vast and my petite one,
my pretty ugly girl,
made of all the silver
and made of all the gold,
made of all the wheat
and all the earth,
made of all the water
of the waves of the sea,
made for my two arms,
made for my kisses,
made, yes, for my heart. » (Pablo Neruda, The inconstant)
« shadow in light, hearth flames the horizon, souls seal of clouds without mist »(DantéBéa)
Louis Aragon
« My beautiful love, my dear love, my heartbreak
I carry you in me like a wounded bird
And those without knowing watch us pass
Repeating after me the words that I have woven
And which for your big eyes immediately died
There is no happy love. » (Louis Aragon)
Marguerite Duras
« This insane love that I have for him remains an unfathomable mystery to me.
I don’t know why I loved him to the point of wanting to die his death… I loved him, it seemed,
forever and nothing new could happen to this love. I had forgotten death. » (Marguerite Duras)
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
« I don’t want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again. » (Francis Scott Fitzgerald)
Valentine Hugo

Valentine Hugo. Portrait of Paul Éluard 1932
Valentine Hugo, Paul and Nush Éluard, André Breton

Valentine Hugo, Paul and Nush Éluard, André Breton. Exquisite corpse 1930
Valentine Hugo, Nush and Paul Éluard

Valentine Hugo, Nush and Paul Éluard. Exquisite corpse 1931
Valentine Hugo, Nush and Paul Éluard, André Breton

Valentine Hugo, Nush and Paul Éluard, André Breton. Exquisite corpse 1929
Nick Cave
« Once upon a time a wild god zoomed
All through his memory, in which he was entombed
It was rape and pillage, in the retirement village
But in his mind, he was a man of great virtue and courage
And he flew out the window with his long trailing hair
And the smoke from the bodies went straight up in the air
He was a wild god searching, for what all wild god’s are searching for
And he flew through the dying city like a prehistoric bird
He went searching for the girl
Down on a Jubilee Street
But she died in a bedsit in 1993
So he flew to the top of the world and looked around
And said, « Where are my people? »
Where are my people?
To bring your spirit down
A wild god searching for a far away girl
Who was basically a mirage, that nevertheless loomed a-large
She would hang under the rail as he blew around the room
And make love with a kind of efficient gloom
And the people on the ground cried « When does it start? »
And the wild god says « It starts with a heart »
With a heart, with a heart, with a heart
And the people on the ground cried « When does it end? »
And the wild god says « Well, it depends, but it mostly never ends »
‘Cause I’m a wild god flying, and wild god a-swimming
And I’m old sick god dying, and crying
And singing
Oh, wild god’s begging, the wild god’s
Yeah, bring your spirit down
Oh, well he’s moving through the flames of anarchy
And he’s moving through the winds of tyranny
And the sweet, sweet tears of liberty
And moving ’round the world
He’s moving through your body like a prehistoric bird
He’s moving ’round the world
Oh Lord
Well, if you’re feeling lonely, and if you’re feeling blue
And if you just don’t know what to do
Bring your spirit down
Oh, we’re wild god’s baby, we’re wild gods
I’m a wild god, baby, I’m a wild god
Oh, here we go
We’re to the cradle of Africa
We’re going to Russia
We’re going to China
To the United States of America
Yeah, moving ’round the world
Yeah, moving like a great big beautiful bird
Moving ’round the world
Yeah, he-he’s swimming to the end of a rotting pier
He swims to the end of his rotting ideas
Swim to the hymn, swim to the prayer
And bring your spirit down
I’m a wild god, baby, I’m a wild god
Well, here we go
Yeah, here we go. »
Luigi Pirandello
« You will learn at your expense that along your path you will encounter millions of masks and very few face »
(Luigi Pirandello)
Maurice Maeterlinck
« We must cultivate silence within ourselves, for it is only in it that unexpected and eternal flowers open for an instant, changing shape and color according to the soul we find ourselves next to. Souls weigh themselves in silence, as gold and silver weigh themselves in pure water, and the words we pronounce have meaning only thanks to the silence in which they bathe. » (Maurice Maeterlinck)
Victor Hugo
« It is that love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, throws its roots deep into our whole being, and often continues to grow green on a ruined heart. And what is inexplicable is that the more blind this passion is, the more tenacious it is. It is never more solid than when it has no reason in it. »(Victor Hugo)
Søren Kierkegaard
« Don’t interrupt the flight of your soul, or distress what is best in you. « (Søren Kierkegaard)
Honoré de Balzac
« Love has its own instinct,
finding the way to the heart,
as the feeblest insect finds
the way to its flower. » (Honoré de Balzac)
Federico Garcia Lorca
« I will go on my way until the universe fits in my heart. » (Federico García Lorca)
Amedeo Modigliani
“Happiness is an angel with a serious face.” (Amedeo Modigliani)
Octavio Paz
« The night erases nights on your face, spreads ointments on your dry eyelids, the thought burns on your forehead, and beyond thought, memory.
Among the shadows that drown you dawns on another face.
And I feel that by my side you are not the sleeper, but the little girl you were and was just waiting for me to sleep to come back and meet me. » (Octavio Paz)

Charles Baudelaire
« We will have beds full of light smells,
Dives as deep as tombs,
And strange flowers on shelves,
Hatched for us under more beautiful skies.
Using their last heat as they wish,
Our two hearts will be two vast torches,
Who will reflect their double lights
In our two minds, these twin mirrors.
An evening made of pink and mystical blue,
We will exchange a single lightning bolt,
Like a long sob, full of goodbyes;
And later an Angel half-opening the doors
Will come to revive, faithful and joyful,
The tarnished mirrors and dead flames. »(Charles Baudelaire)
Bette Midler
« Some say love, it is a river
That drowns the tender reed
Some say love, it is a razor
That leaves your soul to bleed
Some say love, it is a hunger
An endless, aching need
I say love, it is a flower
And you, it’s only seed
It’s the heart, afraid of breaking
That never learns to dance
It’s the dream, afraid of waking
That never takes the chance
It’s the one who won’t be taken
Who cannot seem to give
And the soul afraid of dyin’
That never learns to live
When the night has been too lonely
And the road has been too long
And you think that love is only
For the lucky and the strong
Just remember, in the winter
Far beneath the bitter snows
Lie the seed, that with the sun’s love
In the spring, becomes the rose. «
Bette Midler, The rose
André Gide
Ronde de la grenade
« Certes trois grains de grenade suffirent à faire s’en souvenir Proserpine. Vous chercheriez encore longtemps Le bonheur impossible des âmes. Joies de la chaire et joie des sens Qu’un autre s’il lui plaît vous condamne, Amères joies de la chair et des sens – Qu’il vous condamne – moi je n’ose. – Certes, Didier, philosophe fervent, je t’admire Si la croyance en ta pensée ne te fait à la joie de l’esprit Croire aucune autre préférable. Mais pas dans tous les esprits se peuvent de telles amours. Et certes, aussi moi je vous aime, Mortels tressaillements de mon âme, Joies du cœur, joies de l’esprit – Mais c’est vous, plaisirs, que je chante. Joies d la chair, tendres comme l’herbe, Charmantes comme les fleurs des haies. Fanées plus vite, ou fauchées, que les luzernes des prairies, Que les désolantes spirées qui s’effeuillent dès qu’on les touche. La vue – le plus désolant de nos sens… Tout ce que nous ne pouvons toucher nous désole ; L’esprit saisit plus aisément la pensée Que notre main ce que notre œil convoite. Oh ! Que ce soit ce que tu peux toucher que tu désires, Nathanaël, et ne cherche pas une possession plus parfaite, Les plus douces joies de mes sens Ont été des soifs étanchées. Certes, délicieuse est la brume, au soleil levant sur les plaines Et délicieux le soleil ; Délicieuse à nos pieds nus la terre humide Et le sable mouillé par la mer ; Délicieuse à nous baigner fut l’eau des sources ; A baiser les inconnues lèvres que mes lèvres touchèrent dans l’ombre… Mais des fruits – des fruits – Nathanaël, que dirai-je ? Oh ! Que tu ne les aies pas connus, Nathanaël, c’est bien là ce qui me désespère. Leur pulpe était délicate et juteuse, Savoureuse comme la chair qui saigne, Rouge comme le sang qui sort d’une blessure. Ceux-ci ne réclamaient, Nathanaël, aucune soif particulière, On les servait dans des corbeilles d’or ; Leur goût écœurait tout d’abord, étant d’une fadeur incomparable ; Il n’évoquait celui d’aucun fruit de nos terres ; Il rappelait le goût des goyaves trop mûres, ET la chair en semblait passée ; Elle laissait, après, l’âpreté dans la bouche ; On ne la guérissait qu’en remangeant un fruit nouveau ; A peine bientôt si seulement durait leur jouissance L’instant d’en savourer le suc ; Et cet instant en paraissait tant plus aimable Que la fadeur après devenait plus nauséabonde. La corbeille fut vite vidée Et le dernier nous le laissâmes Plutôt que de le partager. Hélas! après, Nathanaël, qui dira de nos lèvres Quelle fut l’amère brûlure ? Aucune eau ne les put laver. Le désir de ces fruits nous tourmenta jusque dans l’âme. Trois jours durant, dans les marchés, nous les cherchâmes ; La saison en était finie. Où sont, Nathanaël, dans nos voyages De nouveaux fruits pour nous donner d’autres désirs ? * Il y en a que nous mangerons sur des terrasses. Devant la mer et devant le soleil couchant. Il y en a que l’on confit dans de la glace Sucrée avec un peu de liqueur dedans. Il y en a que l’on cueille sur les arbres De jardins réservés, enclos de murs, Et que l’on mange à l’ombre dans la saison estivale. On disposera de petites tables ; Les fruits tomberont tout autour de nous Dès qu’on agitera les branches. Où les mouches engourdies se réveilleront. Les fruits tombés, on les recueillera dans des jattes Et leur parfum déjà suffirait à nous charmer. Il y en a dont l’écorce tache les lèvres et que l’on ne mange que lorsqu’on a très soif. Nous les avons trouvés le long des routes sablonneuses ; Ils brillaient à travers le feuillage épineux Qui déchira nos mains lorsque nous voulûmes les prendre ; Et notre soif n’en fut pas beaucoup étanchée. Il y en a dont on ferait des confitures Rien qu’à les laisser cuire au soleil. Il y en a dont la chair malgré l’hiver demeure sure ; De les avoir mordus les dents sont agacées. Il y en a dont la chair paraît toujours froide, même l’été. On les mange accroupi sur des nattes, Au fond de petits cabarets. Il y en a dont le souvenir vaut une soif Dès qu’on ne peut plus les trouver. * Nathanaël, te parlerai-je des grenades ? On les vendait pour quelques sous, à cette foire orientale, Sur des claies de roseaux où elles s’étaient éboulées. On en voyait qui roulaient dans la poussière Et que des enfants nus ramassaient. Leur jus est aigrelet comme celui des framboises pas mûres. Leur fleur semble faite de cire ; Elle est de la couleur du fruit. Trésor gardé, cloisons de ruches, Abondance de la saveur, Architecture pentagonale. L’écorce se fend ; les grains tombent, Grains de sang dans des coupes d’azur ; Et d’autre, gouttes d’or, dans des plats de bronze émaillé. – Chante à présent la figue, Simiane, Parce que ses amours sont cachées. Je chante la figue, dit-elle. Dont les belles amours sont cachées, Sa floraison est repliée. Chambre close où se célèbrent des noces ; Aucun parfum ne les conte au-dehors. Comme rien ne s’en évapore, Tout le parfum devient succulence et saveur. Fleur sans beauté ; fruit de délices ; Fruit qui n’est que sa fleur mûrie. J’ai chanté la figue, dit-elle, Chante à présent toutes les fleurs. »
(André Gide, Les Nourritures terrestres)
Tindersticks
« The hum, somebody turned off the hum
Has the juice run out again?
Shall we sit in the dark and tell our old stories?
Oh no, not that one again, but we were happy then
Now we laugh the laughter oh, the laughter remembered
And oh, trees fall with no one to hear
Tears fall into our beer
And we laugh that laughter remembered
And oh, it’s so dark on the stairs
And the air is thick and stale
The laughter bumps through the walls
And oh, are we tied to those moments for good?
The way the light was, the salt of our skin and the smell of the ocean
And oh, trees fall with no one to hear
Tears fall into our beer
And we laugh that laughter remembered
The hum, somebody turned off the hum
Has the juice run out again?
Shall we sit in the dark and tell our old stories?
Oh no, not that one again, but we were happy then
Now we laugh the laughter oh, the laughter remembered
And oh, trees fall with no one to hear
Tears fall into our beer
And we laugh that laughter remembered
And oh, are we tied to those moments for good?
The way the light was, the salt of our skin and the smell of the ocean. «
Alain Bashung
« I followed your body, followed its meanders. I got carried away, transported beyond the abyss, over the orchards abandoning the main roads, I took the side alley, I got carried away, transported. » (Alain Bashung)
Philippe Besson
« It hurts to learn to leave those who leave us, to learn to love them in silence, with your back turned, your eyes downcast. To have to teach your heart the strength to empty itself while remaining inhabited. Learning to cry smiling, going away loving… » (Philippe Besson)
Anna SamsKaïa
« You come like a ghost
And walk like a shadow
Full of your nocturnal secrets.
You just wanted a moment.
Your face is in my soul.
We were off limits
And you didn’t know it.
Your thoughts whispered.
Your transparent mind was asleep.
You fell in love with this dream.
You came like a ghost,
You left
Like a shadow.
And you didn’t know it. »(©Anna SamsKaïa)
Fernando Pessoa
« And as the soul is that which does not appear
The most perfect soul is the one that never appears
which is made with the body,
The absolute body of things,
The completely real existence, without shadows, without me,
The complete and absolute coincidence of a thing with itself. » (Fernando Pessoa)
Octavio Paz
“I am the wound that does not heal, the little solar stone: if you brush against me, the world will burn down.” (Octavio Paz)
Valentine Hugo, André Breton, Nush et Paul Éluard

Valentine Hugo, André Breton, Nush et Paul Éluard. Cadavre exquis vers 1930
Natsume Soseki Haikus
“My love has the color of night, the color of darkness visited by the moon.” (Natsume Soseki Haikus)
« I will sing your words more than you believed in them, I will sing your desires more than they were fulfilled, I will sow us the hope that we did not have, our field will shine with a thousand drops that will be you and me. » (DantéBéa)
Victor Hugo
“There are often more shipwrecked things at the bottom of a soul than at the bottom of the sea.” (Victor Hugo)
Wols
“Time is at the beginning and at the end of every human life, and each man has his time, his different time.”(Wols)
André Breton
“Beauty will be convulsive or else will not be.” (André Breton)
Rabindranath Tagore
« I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times…
In life after life, in age after age, forever.
My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs,
That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms,
In life after life, in age after age, forever.
Whenever I hear old chronicles of love, it’s age old pain,
It’s ancient tale of being apart or together.
As I stare on and on into the past, in the end you emerge,
Clad in the light of a pole-star, piercing the darkness of time.
You become an image of what is remembered forever.
You and I have floated here on the stream that brings from the fount.
At the heart of time, love of one for another.
We have played along side millions of lovers,
Shared in the same shy sweetness of meeting,
the distressful tears of farewell,
Old love but in shapes that renew and renew forever.
Today it is heaped at your feet, it has found its end in you
The love of all man’s days both past and forever:
Universal joy, universal sorrow, universal life.
The memories of all loves merging with this one love of ours –
And the songs of every poet past and forever. »(Rabindranath Tagore)
Paul Auster
“Love is the only force that can stop a man in his fall, the only force that is powerful enough to deny the laws of gravity.” (Paul Auster)
Brice Homs
« On my lips you will come and drink
Like wolves at dawn
In the swirl of my black waters
I will hold you without return
On my stomach you will place
Your belly, wave on the wave
And in my arms you will sleep
As in its sheath the dagger
And at a time when wolves bite each other
In the off-white snow
We will be two words that agree
We will be two knotted ropes
On your skin I will make my way
Open mouth and closed mouth
Your lines I will follow them all
And I will learn them all
On your body I will take root
The sap is slow and takes its time
My gestures burn and calcine
Like lava from a volcano
And at a time when wolves bite each other
In the off-white snow
We will be two words that agree
We will be two knotted ropes
On your wings I will fly
Like the wind that carries high
A sky further, a sky after
From soft country to hot country
And at a time when wolves bite each other
In the off-white snow
We will be two words that agree
We will be two knotted ropes. »(Brice Homs)
Pablo Neruda
« I go, surfing my only wave,
lunar, solar, fiery and cold, sudden,
asleep in the throats of the fortunate islands white and soft like fresh hips.
My habit of kisses trembles in the humid night madly agitated with electric discharges, the intoxication of the rose in me unfolded.
Rising up the waters, in the outer waves, your twin body which submits in my arms like an endless fish stuck to my soul. « (Pablo Neruda)
Frédéric Beigbeder
« I think of you all the time. I think of you in the morning, while walking in the cold. I purposely walk slowly so that I can think of you longer. I think of you in the evening, when I miss you among the parties, where I get drunk to think of something other than you, with the opposite effect. I think of you when I see you and also when I don’t see you. I would love to do something other than think about you. but I can’t do it. If you know a trick to forget yourself, let me know. » (Frédéric Beigbeder)
Alfred de Musset
« Farewell! I believe that in this life
I will never see you again.
God passes, he calls you and forgets me;
By losing you I feel that I loved you.
No crying, no vain complaints.
I know how to respect the future.
Come the sail that takes you,
Smiling I will see it leave.
You leave full of hope,
With pride you will return;
But those who will suffer from your absence,
You won’t recognize them.
Farewell ! you are going to have a beautiful dream
And get drunk with dangerous pleasure;
On your path the rising star
It will dazzle your eyes for a long time to come.
One day you might feel
The price of a heart that understands us,
The good that comes from knowing it,
And what we suffer when we lose it. »
(Alfred de Musset)
André Breton, Nush Éluard, Paul Éluard

André Breton, Nush Éluard, Paul Éluard. Cadavres exquis 1929
Albert Camus
« Men must live and create. Live to tears. » (Albert Camus)
Anaïs Nin
« You can’t save people
you can only love them. » (Anais Nin)
Émile Zola
“Love is only permitted to mortal lovers whose kiss gives life.” (Emile Zola)
Sénèque
“We cannot direct the wind but we can direct the sails.” (Sénèque, The Wind)
Victor Hugo
« There is nothing under heaven that does not have its secret law,
Its dear and chosen place, its shelter, its retreat,
Where a thousand deep instincts fix us night and day;
The fisherman has the boat where hope accompanies him,
The swans have the lake, the eagles the mountain.
Souls have love!”(Victor Hugo)
Laura Miller
“Dreams would always end with you, and then mornings would steal you away with a cruelty that haunted my days.” (Laura Miller, Butterfly Weeds)
Edgar Alan Poe
« Many years ago
in a kingdom by the sea
There lived a maiden that you may know
named Annabel Lee.
And this maiden lived without another thought
than to love me and be loved by me.
We were both children
in this kingdom by the sea
but we loved with a love that was more than love
me and my Annabel Lee
with love than the winged seraphim of heaven
They envied her and me.
And for this reason, a long time ago,
in this kingdom by the sea
a wind blew from a cloud
that chilled my beloved Annabel Lee.
And her high-born relatives came
and they took her away from me
to lock her in a tomb
in this kingdom by the sea.
The angels, discontented in heaven,
They envied her and me.
For this reason the wind came out of the cloud at night
to freeze and kill my Annabel Lee.
But our love was much stronger
than that of those older
or wiser than us.
And not even the angels up in heaven
not even the demons under the sea
They will never be able to separate my soul from the soul
by the beautiful Annabel Lee.
Well the moon never shines without bringing me dreams
by the beautiful Annabel Lee
and the stars never shine without me feeling their eyes radiant
by the beautiful Annabel Lee
and when the night tide comes, I lie down right next to it
of my beloved – my beloved – my life and my fiancée
in her grave there by the sea
in her grave by the noisy Sea. » (Edgar Allan Poe)
Forough Farrokhzad
“One night, from beyond the darkness like a star I will come to you.
On the wings of the running wind of the world, I will come to pick you up with joy.
Filled with tenderness and intoxication, like a beautiful summer day, I will offer you a skirt full of wild mountain tulips.
One night, I will knock on your door, your heart will tremble in your chest.
The door will open and my eager body will slide into your warm arms.
In these moments of intoxication, you will no longer see my childish gaze arguing with modesty.
One night, if you call my name, I will invite you to dreamland.
I will dance like mermaids on the waves of your memory.
One night, my thirsty lips will burn with joy in the fire of your lips.
My eyes will fix their hope on the destination of your gaze.
One night, of Venus, the charming goddess,
I will learn the games of love.
Like a light born from the belly of darkness, I will kindle a fire near you.
O you, eyes fixed on the path!
It’s me who will come to you,
On the wings of the running wind of the world, I will come for you with joy. »(Forough Farrokhzad)
Man Ray

Man Ray. The writer, anti-racist and anti-fascism activist Nancy Cunard 1926
John Joos
« It’s crazy how a smell can be remembered in the heart, the almost entire presence of a being. This scent of loving him. » (John Joos)
Sophia Sherine Hutt
« Be a source. Light knows nothing of night, the sun knows nothing of shadow, there are so many moons, several universes and their skies, realities play with illusion, the keys know nothing of lock » (Sophia Sherine Hutt)
Margaret Atwood
“Is that all you want to be? Liked? Wouldn’t you rather be passionately and voraciously desired?”(Margaret Atwood)
« You dream of a paradise of peace but you are unable to escape from your nest of poisonous snakes » (DantéBéa)
Anna Akhmatova
« We learned not to meet anymore,
We don’t raise our eyes to one another,
But we ourselves won’t guarantee
What could happen to us in an hour.”(Anna Akhmatova)
Camille Claudel
“There is always something missing that torments me.” (Camille Claudel)
« Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. »(H.Jackson Brown Jr)
« Far far away from the world
Where nothing ever dies
I did this long
This sweet journey
Our souls merge
To the eternal snows
Love hid
Its true face
Oh come on don’t be wise anymore
After all what does it matter
I know the threat
Dead loves
Let’s keep the innocence
And the carelessness
From our games of yesteryear
Disturbing
Don’t have regrets
Trust me and think
To all the no ways
Indifference of the senses
Don’t have regrets
Make the promise you know that
Winter and autumn could not love each other
Standing with your head drunk
Suspended dreams
I drink to our crippled loves
In the wind that I guess
Our desperate lips
Clandestine weddings take place
Don’t open the door
You know the trap
Of all the remorse
From anathema
I don’t care about the seasons
Come, I will take you there
Where those who love each other sleep »
(Jean-Louis Murat, Mylene Farmer, Regrets)
Oskar Kokoschka
« I painted her like a candle flame: yellow and transparent light blue inside, and all about, outside, an aura of vivid dark blue. »(Oskar Kokoschka)
Antoine de Saint Exupéry

“Go and see the roses again. You will understand that yours is unique in the world.” (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
Boris Vian
“For there to be passion, the union must be brutal, one of the bodies must be very eager for what it is deprived of and which the other possesses in very large quantities.” (Boris Vian)
« Those memories that flow within us from the emerging ashes and burn our life flowing through our veins. « (DantéBéa)
« It is easier to die than to love. This is why I take the trouble to live. » (DantéBéa)
Boris Vian
« He delicately took a rose and tried to break the stem. He made a wrong move and one of the petals tore his hand several centimeters long. His hand bled, in slow pulses, large mouthfuls of dark blood that he swallowed mechanically. » (Boris Vian)
Jorge Luis Borges
“To be with you or not to be with you is the measure of my time.
Already the pitcher breaks on the fountain, already the man stands up at the voice of the bird, already those who look at the windows are darkened but the shadow has not brought peace.
It is, I know well, love: the anxious desire to hear his voice, the expectation and the memory, the horror of living in succession.
It’s love with its mythologies, with its little useless magics.
There is a street corner where I dare not pass.
Already the armies surround me, the hordes.
(This room is unreal, she hasn’t seen it.)
The name of a woman denounces me.
I have a woman’s pain all over my body. » (Jorge Luis Borges)
Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly
“We see into the hearts of women through the holes we make in their self-esteem.” (Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly)
Colette

The writer and actress Colette 1920s
Colette

The writer and actress Colette 1925
Léopold Reutlinger

Léopold Reutlinger. The writer and actress Colette 1910
Colette
« The difficult thing is not to give but not to give everything. » (Colette)
« Between my waves your torrent roars, your sea in my eyes. » @Dantebea
Kobayashi Issa
»Shower of petals, I would like to drink the water of distant mists. » (Kobayashi Issa)

« Pour qu’un amour soit inoubliable, il faut que les hasards s’y rejoignent dès le premier instant. » (Milan Kundera)
Rumi
“Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you’re perfectly free.” (Rumi)
Haruki Murakami
“Sometimes when I look at you, I feel like I’m looking at a distant star.
It’s dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago.
Maybe the star doesn’t even exist anymore. However, sometimes this light seems more real to me than anything else. »
(Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun)
Charles Bukowski
Wants to get out but I’m too tough for him
I say, stay in there, I’m not going
To let anybody see you
There’s a bluebird in my heart that
Wants to get out
But I pour whiskey on him and inhale
Cigarette smoke
And the whores and the bartenders
And the grocery clerks never know that
He’s in there
There’s a bluebird in my heart that
Wants to get out but I’m too tough for him
I say, Stay down, do you want to mess
Me up? You want to screw up the
Works? You want to blow my book sales in
Europe? There’s a bluebird in my heart that
Wants to get out
But I’m too clever, I only let him out
At night sometimes when everybody’s asleep
I say, I know that you’re there
So don’t be sad
Then I put him back
But he’s singing a little
In there, I haven’t quite let him die
And we sleep together like that
With our secret pact
And it’s nice enough to make a man
Weep, but I don’t weep, do
You? » (Charles Bukowski)
Hermann Hesse
« I live in my dreams – that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference. »(Hermann Hesse)
Hermann Hesse
“What is beauty, what is harmony for one who is condemned to death and who runs between crumbling walls, seeking his life?” (Hermann Hesse)
Helen Mac Gowan Cooke

The writer Helen Mac Gowan Cooke as Cleis
Edith Södergran
“Don’t get too close to your dreams:
These are smoke which can disperse. They are dangerous and can remain.
Have you looked your dreams in the eyes :
They are sick and don’t understand anything
They only have their own thoughts.
Don’t get too close to your dreams :
These are lies, they should go away
These are madness for anyone who wants to stay. »
(Edith Södergran)
Françoise Sagan
“I loved until I reached madness, what some call madness but for me, it’s the only way to love.” (Françoise Sagan)
Charles Baudelaire
« Il faut être toujours ivre, tout est là ; c’est l’unique question. Pour ne pas sentir l’horrible fardeau du temps qui brise vos épaules et vous penche vers la terre, il faut vous enivrer sans trêve.
Mais de quoi ? De vin, de poésie, ou de vertu à votre guise, mais enivrez-vous !
Et si quelquefois, sur les marches d’un palais, sur l’herbe verte d’un fossé, vous vous réveillez, l’ivresse déjà diminuée ou disparue, demandez au vent, à la vague, à l’étoile, à l’oiseau, à l’horloge ; à tout ce qui fuit, à tout ce qui gémit, à tout ce qui roule, à tout ce qui chante, à tout ce qui parle, demandez quelle heure il est. Et le vent, la vague, l’étoile, l’oiseau, l’horloge, vous répondront, il est l’heure de s’enivrer ; pour ne pas être les esclaves martyrisés du temps, enivrez-vous, enivrez-vous sans cesse de vin, de poésie, de vertu, à votre guise. »
Petits poèmes en prose ou Le Spleen de Paris (1862), Enivrez-vous de Charles Baudelaire
Leonard Cohen
« Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river
You can hear the boats go by, you can spend the night beside her
And you know that she’s half-crazy but that’s why you want to be there
And she feeds you tea and oranges that come all the way from China
And just when you mean to tell her that you have no love to give her
Then she gets you on her wavelength
And she lets the river answer that you’ve always been her lover
And you want to travel with her, and you want to travel blind
And then you know that she will trust you
For you’ve touched her perfect body with your mind
And Jesus was a sailor when he walked upon the water
And he spent a long time watching from his lonely wooden tower
And when he knew for certain only drowning men could see him
He said all men will be sailors then until the sea shall free them
But he himself was broken, long before the sky would open
Forsaken, almost human, he sank beneath your wisdom like a stone
And you want to travel with him, and you want to travel blind
And then you think maybe you’ll trust him
For he’s touched your perfect body with his mind
Now, Suzanne takes your hand and she leads you to the river
She’s wearing rags and feathers from Salvation Army counters
And the sun pours down like honey on our lady of the harbor
And she shows you where to look among the garbage and the flowers
There are heroes in the seaweed, there are children in the morning
They are leaning out for love and they will lean that way forever
While Suzanne holds the mirror
And you want to travel with her, and you want to travel blind
And then you know that you can trust her
For she’s touched your perfect body with her mind. «