For you

Max Ehrmann

Love Some One

Love some one—
in God's name love some one—
for this is the bread of the inner life,
without which a part of you will starve and die;
and though you feel you must be stern,
even hard, in your life of affairs,
make for yourself at least a little corner,
somewhere in the great world,
where you may unbosom and be kind.

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Edna St. Vincent Millay

Sonnet

Love is not all: It is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain,
Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
and rise and sink and rise and sink again.
Love cannot fill the thickened lung with breath
Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;
Yet many a man is making friends with death
even as I speak, for lack of love alone.

 
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