Ralph Waldo Emerson

“My dear girl, I love you ever and ever and without reserve.””

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

“To surrender now is to pay the expensive ogre twice.Ancient woods of my blood, dash down to the nut of the seas.If I take to burn or return this world which is each man's work.””

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

“For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.””

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

“I met a lady in the meads, Full beautiful”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

“For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.””

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

“You will come one day in a waver of love,Tender as dew, impetuous as rain,The tan of the sun will be on your skin,The purr of the breeze in your murmuring speech,You will pose with a hill-flower grace.You will come, with your slim, expressive arms,A poise of the head no sculptor has caughtAnd nuances spoken with shoulder and neck,Your face in pass-and-repass of moodsAs many as skies in delicate changeOf cloud and blue and flimmering sun.Yet,You may not come, O girl of a dream,We may but pass as the world goes byAnd take from a look of eyes into eyes,A film of hope and a memoried day.””

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

“I’m nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there’s a pair of us”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Women and men(both little and small) cared for anyone not at all they sowed their isn’t they reaped their same sun moon stars rain children guessed(but only a few and down they forgot as up they grew””

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

“She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes:””

— Oliver Wendell Holmes