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From Monachos Patristic Quotations Index
Poetry by Alexander Pushkin:
I have outlasted all desire, My dreams and I have grown apart; My grief alone is left entire, The gleanings of an empty heart. The storms of ruthless dispensation Have struck my flowery garland numb- I live in lonely desolation And wonder when my end will come. Thus on a naked tree-limb, blasted By tardy winter's whistling chill, A single leaf which has outlasted Its season will be trembling still. ---1821.
I loved you; and perhaps I love you still, The flame, perhaps, is not extinguished; yet It burns so quietly within my soul, No longer should you feel distressed by it. Silently and hopelessly I loved you, At times too jealous and at times too shy. God grant you find another who will love you As tenderly and truthfully as I. ---1829.
I thought you had forgotten, heart, Your ability to suffer pain. That easy gift would come, I thought, No more again! No more again! Gone were the raptures and the griefs And the dreams you half-believed. . . But now I know, while beauty lives so long will live my power to grieve. ---1835.
"If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were."
- Richar Bach (US writer)
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