I want a Parfum life!
I want to whirl like a Dervish!
I want to breathe in deeply the spicy
Floral scents of love in full bright light!
I won’t live off diluted fumes!
I won’t dance twisted heartbreak jigs!
I won’t hold my burning breath
In the dank acrid shadows of strife!
I want a parfum life!
“Till We Have Faces” Over the Rhine
“Amber does not shed so sweet a perfume as the veriest trifles touched by those we love.”
“The powerful sentiment of love, which directed his present studies, had already instructed him in agriculture, and in the art of laying out grounds with advantage and beauty. It must be admitted, that to the fond dreams of this restless and ardent passion, mankind are indebted for most of the arts and sciences, while its disappointments have given birth to philosophy, which teaches us to bear up under misfortune. Love, thus, the general link of all beings, becomes the great spring of society, by inciting us to knowledge as well as to pleasure.”
Both quotes are from Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre writing of ‘Paul and Virginia’.
My thanks to David Lahti’s website: Reflections of Great Literature for the resource. And to Over the Rhine for continually writing some of the most lyrically rich and deeply satisfying music I have ever had the pleasure of listening to.
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