Elizabeth Bishop Quotes

I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.

To love is to approach each other center to center.

Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do you measure the worth of becoming that familiar to somebody—so utterly well known and so thoroughly ever-present that you become an almost invisible necessity, like air?

Friendship, I fancy, means one heart between two.

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)

I believe love is the most powerful energy we have in this life. Everything is about love.

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

All who love are conspirators.

Anything that takes you out of the context of being separate is healing. Anything that takes you out of the context of separateness is intimacy.

Love is closeness.

Just the act of sleeping beside someone you liked to be with. Maybe that was love.

Have you ever felt really close to someone? So close that you can't understand why you and the other person have two separate bodies, two separate skins?

She had never been so close to anybody. It was as if they were one being, together, not predator and prey, but partners in a dance.

There is a stage with people we love when we are no longer separate from them, but so close in sympathy that we live through them as directly as through ourselves. ... we push back our hair because theirs is in their eyes.

I have slept with you all night long while the dark earth spins with the living and the dead, and on waking suddenly in the midst of the shadow my arm encircled your waist. Neither night nor sleep could separate us.

When we hug, our hearts connect and we know that we are not separate beings. Hugging with mindfulness and concentration can bring reconciliation, healing, understanding, and much happiness.

I was crying for joy, my Sassenach,' he said softly. He reached out slowly and took my face between his hands. "And thanking God that I have two hands. That I have two hands to hold you with. To serve you with, to love you with. Thanking God that I am a whole man still, because of you.

He would have told her - he would have said, it matters not if you are here or there, for I see you before me every moment. I see you in the light of the water, in the swaying of the young trees in the spring wind. I see you in the shadows of the great oaks, I hear your voice in the cry of the owl at night. You are the blood in my veins, and the beating of my heart. You are my first waking thought, and my last sigh before sleeping. You are - you are bone of my bone, and breath of my breath.

At the heart of all things is love.

Look, how this ring encompasseth thy finger, Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart; Wear both of them, for both of them are thine.

As we get deeper, we move closer and closer to other people; we feel closer to life as a whole.

Dream after dream we all lie in each other's arms

When you love someone, you have to be with them, don't you? To be part of their life, to have them be part of yours." Glory in Death

They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.

The purpose of it all is love.