Stark Raving Love

Famous quotes containing the words stark, raving and/or love:

    The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.
    —Freya Stark (b. 1893–1993)

    Without, the frost, the blinding snow,
    The storm-wind’s moody madness—
    Within, the firelight’s ruddy glow,
    And childhood’s nest of gladness.
    The magic words shall hold thee fast:
    Thou shalt not heed the raving blast.
    Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

    Let Love step down,
    open the clasped hands,
    forfeit the thorny crown,
    retrieve the garment
    that was whole,
    body and spirit one, spirit and soul.
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)