Blake Auden on happiness
Blake Auden55 quotes“I have never known what happiness really means, but I’m sure it sounds a lot like your name.”
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You are more than the things that have hurt you.
Blake AudenBlake Auden Of course, you don’t know how to love me. I’ve never known how to do that, either.
Blake AudenBlake Auden She lost herself, a little, in that darkness but returned with stars beneath her skin.
Blake AudenBlake Auden It’s not that I don’t love you. It’s just that I don’t want to.
Blake AudenBlake Auden I miss you. By which I mean I’m jealous of the soil that gets to hold your bones.
Blake AudenBlake Auden These days my bones are shifting, trembled things. I am more earthquake than anything.
Blake AudenBlake Auden Love is a child with a gun in her hand.
Blake AudenBlake Auden I don’t know if you are the water or light. Only that you can flood a room.
Blake AudenBlake Auden You taught me to believe in love and then showed me exactly why I shouldn’t.
Blake AudenBlake Auden And again my mind runs to you in the way that rivers can’t help but return to the salt.
Blake AudenBlake Auden There are pieces of you in all the things you have loved. This is how we live forever.
Blake AudenBlake Auden Everything I know of love is told in the bruises we left on each other.
Blake AudenBlake Auden I’m sorry for being this hard to love.
Blake AudenBlake Auden I know you will take the last of me and I will love you anyway.
Blake AudenBlake Auden I am a child of autumn: At home amongst things that only know of falling.
Blake AudenBlake Auden I knew I loved you before I understood what that meant.
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