Quoted

For they could not love you
But still your love was true

And when no hope was left in sight

On that starry, starry night

You took your life, as lovers often do

But I could have told you, Vincent

This world was never meant for one

As beautiful as you

– Don McLean, “Vincent”

I don’t believe in magic but I do believe in you

And when you say you believe in me
There’s so much magic I can do

– Don McLean, “Birthday Song”

A rock feels no pain
    but I’m a tree
An island never cries
    but I’m a tree.

I’m deeply rooted
    my branches spread wide
Its my nature, to be fixed
    ‘n’ to take you in my stride.

A tree gives you shade
    a place to go to
You wants its fruits
    but not help it grow?

To the loneliest one…

There is in certain living souls
A quality of loneliness unspeakable
So great it must be shared
As company is shared by lesser beings
Such a loneliness is mine; so know by this
That in immensity
There is one lonelier than you.

— Theodore Sturgeon, “A Saucer of Loneliness”, 1953