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Quotes About Longing

I think most good poetry is about suffering; I think that's what underlies the love in these landays pieces - suffering and longing.
~ Eliza Griswold
Some people can't go into church any longer to feel this longing, but they still have the longing, so what do they do? Well, one thing you can do is what people do in prison; they turn to poetry.
~ Robert Bly
So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world.And live your life.
~ Mary Oliver, Red Bird
I had to learn to live without you and I couldn't make sense of it, because I left so much of me inside of you.
~ Robert M. Drake
And everything I thought I knew - you made me trade it all for you...but, frankly, you're not worth it.
~ Phar West Nagle
Yet this thou art alive, but if ye soar, My poor frail heart will have beat out its cryAnd sadly miss thy sweet form all the moreWhile helplessly I stand and watch you die.
~ Timothy Salter
...my heart rides the wind and my thoughts sail away - to a land below the horizon where I know you hide from me...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
30 cents, two transfers, loveThinking hard about you I got on the bus and paid 30 cents car fare and asked the driver for two transfers before discovering that I was alone.
~ Richard Brautigan
It could have been so beautiful.The way I learned and got free and swore to never love another person ever againand it could have been so beautiful, the way I actually did.
~ Charlotte Eriksson
If I can't spend the rest of my life with you, I will live alone.
~ Delano Johnson, Love Quotes
May I live to see the day when I long for the agony I feel now. /????? ??????? ????? ??????? ??????
~ Fujiwara no Kiyosuke
I'm looking for youinto that silverspoon where I taste my reflection to feel the touch of your untouchables- from the poem "Looking For You
~ Munia Khan
I miss you, I miss you at night, I can't sleep without you anymore, I'm scared. Meet me in heaven.
~ Efdal Korkmaz
Why is it that you still beguile me –As wind, stone, bird – and all the likes? Why is that you smile on me – With sudden summer lightning strikes?
~ Anna Akhmatova, White Flock
Oh love will make a dog howl in rhyme.
~ John Fletcher
Desire is craving enough to sacrifice for
~ Myles Munroe
Love is deserved, not desired.
~ Vikrmn, Guru with Guitar
The longer the waiting, the longer the wondering.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
First came him, then came I, then he came again and then I was lost forever.
~ Alok Jagawat
I am waiting for that Morning, When Me and My Dream, both will be Together.
~ Shashank Rayal
The cost of not following your heart is spending the rest of your life wishing you had.
~ Anonymous
You can get what you want.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
I actually remember feeling delight at two o'clock in the morning when the baby woke for his feed because I so longed to have another look at him.
~ Margaret Drabble
We all wish we had super powers. We all wish we could do more than we can do.
~ Stan Lee