“A Stranger There is a love I reminisce, Like a seed I've never sown. Or lips that im yet to kiss, and eyes not met my own. Hands that wrap around my wrists, and arms that feel like home. I w...”
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Lang Leav is a poet and internationally exhibiting artist. Awarded a coveted Churchill Fellowship, her work expresses the intricacies of love and loss. Beautifully illustrated and thoughtfully conceived, Love and Misadventure will take you on a rollercoaster ride through an ill-fated love affair- from the initial butterflies to the soaring heights- through to the devastating plunge. Lang Leav has an unnerving ability to see inside the hearts and minds of her readers. Her talent for translating complex emotions with astonishing simplicity has won her a cult following of devoted fans from all over the world.
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Lang Leav
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“A Stranger There is a love I reminisce, Like a seed I've never sown. Or lips that im yet to kiss, and eyes not met my own. Hands that wrap around my wrists, and arms that feel like home. I w...”
“Xs and Os Love is a game of tic-tac-toe, constantly waiting, for the next x or o.”
“You were you, and I was I; we were two before our time. I was yours before I knew, and you have always been mine too.”
“She lends her pen, to thoughts of him, that flow from it, in her solitary. For she is his poet, And he is her poetry.”
“Without a doubt, I must read, all the books I've read about. See the artworks hung on hooks, that I have only, seen in books.”
“Like time suspended, a wound unmended-- you and I. We had no ending, no said goodbye; For all my life, I'll wonder why.”
“Saving You The darkness takes him over, the sickness pulls him in; his eyes—a blown out candle, I wish to go with him. Sometimes I see a flicker— a light that shone from them; I hold him to...”
“I don't think all writers are sad, she said. I think it's the other way around— all sad people write.”
“Before I fell in love with words, with setting skies and singing birds— it was you I fell in love with first.”