Quotes About Yearner

That's when I want you— you knower of my emptiness, you unspeaking partner to my sorrow— that's when I need you, — Rainer Maria Rilke, from "Ich bin derselbe noch, der kniete," Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God , trans. Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy (Riverhead Books, 1996)

he who only came to me dreaming

Ma'am, I said, I'd have liked it, having you for a ma.

Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.

My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.

He was a man built to yearn for what he could not have.

I would be anyone if only I could be with you.

Oh why is she going away just when I want so much to be with her! She is the answer to the riddle of my life.

The blood of the thief, the pioneer and the marauder, the yearner and the usurper. She looks out at the desert and its dream of tranquility.

All you want is Love. And if you've wanted love so badly, why haven't you had it? Does not that say something about The Wanter, not his World?

Barkis suspira.