You want a social life, with friends
SOMETIMES
by David Whyte
Sometimes
if you move carefully
through the forest,
breathing
like the ones
in the old stories,
who could cross
a shimmering bed of leaves
without a sound,
you come to a place
whose only task
is to trouble you
with tiny
but frightening requests,
conceived out of nowhere
but in this place
beginning to lea... See more
C’est tout au plus s’il peut coller du dehors sa figure famélique aux glaces des restaurants et surtout des cafés où se réunissent les jeunes journalistes et les écrivains ; de tous les plaisirs, de toutes les joies, de toutes les splendeurs de la ville immense, aucun, pas même le plus fugitif, n’est à la portée de l’ermite volontaire de la rue Les
... See moreStefan Zweig • Balzac: Le roman de sa vie (French Edition)
You can be lonely anywhere, but there is a particular flavour to the loneliness that comes from living in a city, surrounded by millions of people.