Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.

I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.

For a young man to start his career with a love affair with an older woman was quite de rigueur ... Of course, it must not go on for too long. An apprenticeship was a very different thing from a career.

See the last orange roses, how they blow / Deeper and heavier than in their prime, / In one defiant flame before they go.

Flowers really do intoxicate me.

Violence, passion, indignation, loyalty, integrity, incorruptibility, shameless egoism, generosity, excitability, energy, a hundred horse-power drive - none of it very subtle: Ethel [Smyth] didn't deal in pastel shades, she went for the stronger colors, the blood-red, anything deep and pumping out of the arteries of the heart.

I cannot bear that you / Should think me faithful, when I am untrue.