„somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyondany experience, your eyes have their silence.in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,or which i cannot touch because they are too near your slightest look easily will unclose methough i have closed myself as fingers,you always open petal by petal myself as Spring opens(touching skilfully, mysteriously)her first rose or if it be your wish to close me, i andmy life will shut very beautifully, suddenlyas the heart of this flower imaginesthe snow carefully everywhere descending; nothing we are to perceive in this world equalsthe power of your intense fragility: whose texturecompels me with the colour of its countriesrendering death and forever with each breathing“

— E.E. Cummings

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„nothing which we are to perceive in this world equalsthe power of your intense fragility“
— E.E. Cummings
„Because your eyes are slant and slow,Because your hair is sweet to touch,My heart is high again; but oh,I doubt if this will get me much.“
— Dorothy Parker
„I tell you thisto break your heart,by which I mean onlythat it break open and never close againto the rest of the world.“
— Mary Oliver
„I HIDE myself within my flowerThat wearing on your breast,You, unsuspecting, wear me too—And angels know the rest.I hide myself within my flower,That, fading from your vase,You, unsuspecting, feel for meAlmost a loneliness…“
— Emily Dickinson
„There's nothing you could have done that would cause me to cease loving either of you. Will is myself, my own soul, and if I am not to have the keeping of your heart, then there is not other I would rather have that honor.“
— Cassandra Clare
„Of course you’re there. Death is always there. So why was I afraid? Your leap is swift. Your claws are sharp and merciful. What can you take from me which is not already yours?... Everything I have done until now has been fruitless. It has led to nothing. There was no other path except that it led to nothing — and before me now there is only one real fact — Death. The truth I have been seeking — this truth is Death. Yet Death is also a seeker. Forever seeking me. So — we have met at last. And I am prepared. I am at peace. Because I will conquer death with death.“
— Bruce Lee
„I was your luxury. For nineteen years I have been put in your man’s world and was forbidden to touch anything and you made me think that all was going very well and that I did not have to worry about anything but putting flowers in vases. Why did you lie to me? Why did you keep me ignorant, if it was to admit to me one day that this world is cracking and that you are all powerless and to make me choose between a suicide and a murder?“
— Jean Paul Sartre
„Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That's the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won't make time stand still.“
— Haruki Murakami
„Kiss me as if you made believeYou were not sure, this eve,How my face, your flower, had pursedIt's petals up.“
— Robert Browning
„Then love knew it was called love.And when I lifted my eyes to your name,suddenly your heart showed me my way“
— Pablo Neruda
„somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond“
— E.E. Cummings