“Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.”

“I have loved colours, and not flowers;
Their motion, not the swallows wings;
And wasted more than half my hours
Without the comradeship of things.”

“Because these wings are no longer wings to fly
But merely vans to beat the air
The air which is now thoroughly small and dry
Smaller and dryer than the will
Teach us to care and not to care
Teach us to sit still. Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death
Pray for us now and at the hour of our death.”

“Love is the absence of Anxiety.”

“Absence - that common cure of love.”

“Absence, that common cure of love.”

“In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.”

“Solitude is not the absence of Love, but its complement.”

“Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.”

“Friendship is Love without wings.”