Glow

"What though the radiance that was once so bright, be now forever taken from my sight.

Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;

We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind..."

– William Wordsworth, Ode: Intimations of Immortality

Covenant

"By the time you swear you're his,

Shivering and sighing,

And he vows his passion is

Infinite, undying,

Lady, make a note of this —

One of you is lying."

- Dorothy Parker, Unfortunate Coincidence

Change

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves. We must die to one life before we can enter another."

- Anatole France

Broken

"We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered."

- Tom Stoppard

Beauty

"The poetry of the earth is never dead."

- John Keats