Quote #25

Remember only this of our hopeless love That never till Time is done Will the fire of the heart and the fire of the mind be one.

More from Edith Sitwell

  1. The flames of the heart consumed me, and the mind Is but a foolish wind.
  2. Mother or Murderer, you have given or taken life - Now all is one!
  3. The great gold planet that is the mourning heat of the Sun Is greater than all gold, more powerful Than the tawny body of a Lion that fire …
  4. Our hearts seemed safe in our breasts and sang to the Light - The marrow in the bone We dreamed was safe. . . the blood in the veins, the s…
  5. Still falls the Rain - Still falls the Blood from the Starved Man's wounded Side: He bears in His Heart all wounds, - those of the light th…
  6. The living blind and seeing Dead together lie As if in love . . . There was no more hating then, And no more love; Gone is the heart of Man.
  7. Still falls the Rain At the feet of the Starved Man hung upon the Cross. Christ that each day, each night, nails there, have mercy on us -
  8. The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

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