Katherine Mansfield, from selected poems; “old-fashioned widow’s song”
You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place. Like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place because you’ll never be this way ever again.
- Azar Nafisi // Reading Lolita in Tehran
The Love Letter -
William Godward (1861-1922) The Love Letter (Detail) Oil on canvas, 1907