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Posts Tagged ‘melancholy’
Sometimes I feel nostalgic over something I haven’t lost yet…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged entropy, film, jason silva, love, melancholy, nostalgia, petry, sadness, transience on April 23, 2014| Leave a Comment »
A Melancholy Heart
Posted in confessions, tagged anthologies, byron, composers, history, hopeless romantic, keats, kindred spirits, love letters, melancholy, poets, romanticism, shelley on December 7, 2007| 1 Comment »
I am moved to tears quite easily. music, poetry, prose, films, a glance, a string of words, a particular touch, a sound, a smell, an action.
I collect love letters; published anthologies of love letters from notable people in history – poets, playwright, politicians, composers, scholars, philosophers, teachers, lovers and friends. They write in a style and with a sentiment that is much different to that of the current day. More expressive, more heartfelt, more sincere.
Inside I am very sensitive, selectively vulnerable, a person who has been known to pine on more than one occasion, an old soul, an onion. Sometimes I feel as though I belong to a different time where I would read and write and pose for portraits. When I feel, I feel deeply… in search of kindred spirits.
Perhaps you are like me? If so, you will appreciate the posts to come. If not, I welcome you to a collection of hopeless romanticism.
“All my joys to this are folly, Naught so sweet as melancholy” – Robert Burton
Posted in confessions, tagged heavy heart, melancholy, robert burton, sad, tears, victor hugol on December 7, 2007| 2 Comments »
… and Victor Hugo once wrote that ‘Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad’.
Is it true that there are those who actually enjoy tears, or a heavy heart?
