I love it when a poem sums up exactly how you feel/where you are in your life. This one even got the age right.
"This, no song of an ingnue,
This, no ballad of innocence;
This, the rhyme of a lady who
Followed ever her natural bents....."
L'ENVOI
"Princes, never I'd give offense,
Won't you think of me tenderly?
Here's my strength and my weakness, gents,
I loved them until they loved me."
Dorothy Parker, from "Ballade at Thirty-Five"
"This, no song of an ingnue,
This, no ballad of innocence;
This, the rhyme of a lady who
Followed ever her natural bents....."
L'ENVOI
"Princes, never I'd give offense,
Won't you think of me tenderly?
Here's my strength and my weakness, gents,
I loved them until they loved me."
Dorothy Parker, from "Ballade at Thirty-Five"
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that's another lovely one. i am so gonna have to get that book soon.
that's great that you have such an attachment to your tat. i've been holding the image of the one i want in my head for years now. it makes it so much more fabulous and meaningful and significant. and i must say again it is very beautiful. simple yet also complex in its own way and elegant.
Sticking with my priorities isn't always easy.....i tend to lose out sometimes, but i know that they are right, so i try like hell to stick with them.