"A mermaid found a swimming lad,
Picked him up for her own,
Pressed her body to his body,
Laughed; and plunging down
Forgot in cruel happiness
That even lovers drown."
W.B. Yeats (via vanished)

"All lovers live by longing, and endure:
Summon a vision and declare it pure."
Theodore Roethke, Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse (via larmoyante)