Richard Width:
CLASS OF 1987
Voorhees High SchoolClass of 1987
Glen gardner, NJ
Richard's Story
Richard is from Califon, New Jersey. Richard's schools include Voorhees High School. Richard later attended Boston University (BFA Acting, minor Poetry) , Gordon College (European Seminar: English Lit and Western History) .
Music Richard likes includes Singing Bowl Lady, Max Richter, Justin Utley - NOTHING THIS REAL. Books Richard likes include Night, The Giving Tree, Cutting for Stone. Movies Richard likes include Life of Pi Movie, Marina AbramoviÄ The Artist is Present, Sam: A Short Film. TV shows Richard likes include The New Normal, American Horror Story, Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.
One of Richard's favorite quotes is:""Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly, and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story. Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love â for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment is it perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you from misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labours and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.â
-Max Ehrmann, Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life
"...You'll love them more than they love you- and they'll love you when you least expect it.." Sal Bardo, "Requited"
"Do not pity the dead. Pity the living. Especially those who live without Love." JK Rowling
"Place me like a seal over your heart,
like a seal over your arm;
for Love is as strong as Death,
it's jealousy unyielding as the grave.
It burns like a blazing fire,
like a mighty flame.
Many waters cannot quench Love;
rivers cannot wash it away."
Song of Songs 8: 6-7
"I may not be able to carry your burden, Mr. Frodo- but I can carry you..."
"Our two souls therefore, which are one,
Though...Expand for more
I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion,
Like gold to airy thinness beat."
John Donne
"i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)
i fear
no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet) i want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)"
ee cummings
"Passer By,
To Love is to find your own Soul
Through the Soul of the Beloved one.
When the Beloved one withdraws itself from your Soul
Then you have lost your soul.
It is written 'I have a friend,
But my sorrow has no friend.'
Hence my long years of Solitude
Trying to get myself back,
And turn my sorrow into a Supreme Self.
Oh, ye Souls who have made life
Fragrant and white as Roses
From the earth's dark soul,
Eternal Peace!"
Edgar Lee Masters
"Love
Though still in bed, my thoughts go out to you, my Immortal Beloved, now and then joyfully, then sadly, waiting to learn whether or not fate will hear us -
I can live only wholly with you or not at all -
Yes, I am resolved to wander so long away from you until I can fly to your arms and say that I am really at home with you, and can send my soul enwrapped in you into the land of spirits - Yes, unhappily it must be so -
You will be the more contained since you know my fidelity to you. No one else can ever possess my heart - never - never - Oh God, why must one be parted from one whom one so loves. Your love makes me at once the happiest and the unhappiest of men - At my age I need a steady, quiet life - can that be so in our connection? Be calm, only by a calm consideration of our existence can we achieve our purpose to live together - Be calm - love me - today - yesterday - what tearful longings for you - you - you"
Years and years I have fear'd the shame
And the cruel speech of the world.
But over our heads in the darkness now
Is the banner of love unfurl'd,
(Lean closer, cling to me, kiss my lips,
Our love can despise the world.)
Gabriel Gillett, 1890".
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