What a writer this guy is. And so beautiful a soul. On loneliness:
But like those women of Malamocco and Pelestrina [towns on the Venetian lagoon], who when their husbands are fishing at sea, repair to the shore and sing their shrill songs at evening, till they hear the voices of their husbands in reply borne to them over the water, so go we about indefatigably, chanting our stanza of the lay, and awaiting the response of a kindred soul out of the distance.
And love:
There is no remedy for love but more love.
These from his journals, which are his best work.
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