Words, words, words (Quotes for our dear Irma)

(Because the mun likes to copy ideas and this one was amazing and even though many of them may not make sense, they kinda do to me.)

For some we loved, the loveliest and best
That from His rolling vintage Time has pressed,
Have drunk their glass a round or two before,
And one by one crept silently to rest

-Omar Khayyam, Rubbaiyat [trans. Edward Fitzgerald]

They say best men are molded out of faults,
And, for the most, become much more the better
For being a little bad.

- William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

When I think that you are gone
black shadow that amazes me,
by my bedside you turn,
there, mocking me.

- Rosalía de Castro, Negra Sombra [trans. by yours truly]

To have courage for whatever comes in life — everything lies in that.

- St. Teresa de Jesús.

I abandoned and forgot myself,
laying my face on my Beloved;
all things ceased; I went out from myself,
leaving my cares
forgotten among the lilies.

- St. John of the Cross, Dark night of the soul