"It was a real event in my life and my heart to be with you the other day. We do matter to each other, don't we? howev…"

"I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion a…"

"It is incredible how essential to me you have become. I suppose you are accustomed to people saying these things. Dam…"

"She walks among the loveliness she made, Between the apple-blossom and the water— She walks among the patterned pied …"

"It is quite true that you have had infinitely more influence on me intellectually than anyone, and for this alone I l…"

"The young men strained upon the crank To wring the last reluctant inch. They laughed together, fair and frank, And th…"

"Who could so watch, and not forget the rack Of wills worn thin and thought become too frail, Nor roll the centuries b…"

"If I had only loved your flesh And careless damned your soul to Hell, I might have laughed and loved afresh, And love…"

"It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfl…"

"And so it ends, We who were lovers may be friends. I have some weeks in which to steel My heart and teach myself to f…"