Relationships and Family

I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. Consequently, my family pride is something in-conceivable. I can’t help it. I was born sneering.

Your children are not your children.

They’ll tell thee, sailors, when away,

An open foe may prove a curse,

An inconstant woman, tho’ she has no chance to be very happy, can never be very unhappy.

And when a lady’s in the case,

How happy could I be with either,

All that matters is love and work.

Man’s best possession is a sympathetic wife.

There never was a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get asleep.

When lovely woman stoops to folly and

And still she cried, and still the world pursues,

In every parting there is an image of death.

Come mothers and fathers,

Come mothers and fathers,

For secrets are edged tools,

And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.

In friendship false, implacable in hate:

John Donne, Anne Donne, Un-done.

Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls.

Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls.

I am two fools, I know,

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime,

This bed thy centre is, these walls thy sphere.