Desire / A letter to Eva Palmer | Natalie Clifford Barney, 21 Dec 1900

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Eva Palmer c 1900

Eva Palmer, c 1900

How pale is all reality next to the mere dream of you; my sweetest sunlit desire grows and is drowned and refound and lost again in the vibrating possibilities I feel in the looks of your half-closed eyes, and it is no longer my tongue but my soul that caresses you… ah, the warmness of being so together. I would have flame born of it – flame that is a sort of light! How it burns me with joy when I kiss you.

Natalie Clifford Barney to Eva Palmer, 21 December 1900
from Wild Heart: A Life by Suzanne Rodriguez

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