“Love is so small it can tear itself through the eye of a needle”
Source: The English Patient
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Canadian writer 1943Related quotes
“It was a mite that held itself most dear,
So small I could have drowned it with a tear.”
"Interludes" III, in From Darkness To Light : A Confession of Faith in the form of an Anthology (1956) edited by Victor Gollancz
Context: Then in my heart a fear
Cried out, "A life — why, beautiful, why dead!" It was a mite that held itself most dear,
So small I could have drowned it with a tear.
“My tears must stop, for every drop
Hinders needle and thread.”
1840s, The Song of the Shirt (1843)
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Interviews
“There was a larger pattern
we worked at: they on a big
loom, I with a small needle.”
"In Context", p. 13
Frequencies (1978)
“Through my tears
I found god in myself
and I loved her fiercely”
for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf (1976)
Variant: i found god in myself
& i loved her/i loved her fiercely
Source: In the Ravine (1900), Ch. 6, pp. 216
Visions of Excess: Selected Writings 1927-1939