Best 5 quotes of Louise Hawes on MyQuotes

Bearings You are my dear compass, who knows no way but true, so when I'm lost and drifting, I find myself in you. Yet when I ask you, fearful, if I should set you free, imagine my surprise to hear you take your north from me.

For Margaret Some people laugh ha-ha-ha. Other people put their hands on their mouths he-he-he. In the department stores Santa laughs ho-ho-ho. But this girl I know− okay, this girl I'm crazy for laughs like an envelope tearing open and good stuff spilling out.

How long would our poem be? How much would it weigh? The first verse would be yours, of course− Age before beauty, you'd say. You would not rush so much as crest, a wave that spreads and breaks across the eyes and ears to fill some deeper, inner space. The next verse would be mine, self-conscious, yes, it's true, and full of fits and starts but bits of music too. Would we share some lines then, just we two? Here's a place for my words; here, only yours will do, And would it matter, really, after all is said and done, who made which piece of glory? Who, this moon? Who, that sun? The pen drops from my hand, but there's still more to say. So I must write our final line, which is simply stay.

It was like diving into winter waves. "I can't," I told him. "Why not?" "Because I need to find out who I am by myself before I can be with anyone else.

Safe Deposit I thought that I could keep it− the light on the running tide, how your eyes give you away no matter what you hide. I thought that I could hold it− the forest along the sand, your neck bones like pearls underneath my hand. But time's school has taught me how petals brown and die. There's no saving pleasure. Don't try. Don't try.