WORKS MENTIONED IN Love and Other Accidents (they're easy to Google)
-John Donne’s “Elegy 20: To His Mistress Coming to Bed”
-Robert Frost’s “Fire and Ice”
-Shakespeare’s King Lear, Act 5, Scene 3, lines 11-22.
-Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Act 1, Scene 1, lines 1+
-Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself,” Stanza 51
-William Carlos William’s “Dance Russe”
-John Donne's "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning"
-Lord Byron’s “She Walks In Beauty Like the Night”
-Pablo Neruda’s “So that You Can Hear Me” (V. from Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair)
-Robert Browning's "Life in a Love"
-William Carlos Williams' "The Ivy Crown"
-W. B. Yeats' "When You Are Old"
-Margaret Atwood's "Variation on the Word Sleep"

OTHER STUFF

Currently reading: Fairy Tales (For class, even!)

Currently listening to: The Proclaimers, Bright Eyes, Beulah

Currently watching: ...nothing (I'm back at school)

Quotes of the day/week/month or whatever:

If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
--Lily Tomlin

"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up."
--James Baldwin

On reflection, one of the things I needed to learn was to allow myself to be loved.
--Isha McKenzie-Mavinga

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery