“Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.”
Camille Paglia (1947) American writer
Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf, p. 203
"Emily"
Lyrics
“Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.”
Camille Paglia (1947) American writer
Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf, p. 203
“I only know we loved in vain;
I only feel — farewell! farewell!”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
Farewell! If Ever Fondest Prayer (1808), st. 2.
Tom Petty (1950–2017) American musician
A Woman in Love (It's Not Me), written with Mike Campbell
Lyrics, Hard Promises (1981)
Marcel Proust book In Search of Lost Time
Autrefois on rêvait de posséder le cœur de la femme dont on était amoureux; plus tard sentir qu’on possède le cœur d’une femme peut suffire à vous en rendre amoureux.
"Swann in Love"
In Search of Lost Time, Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), Vol I: Swann's Way (1913)
John Steinbeck book East of Eden
Variant: My father said she was a strong woman, and I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is almost indestructible.
Source: East of Eden
“Your woman: always love her as the only priority on Earth.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: (it) La tua donna: amala sempre come unica priorità sulla Terra.
Source: prevale.net