I know what loving you is. It is not a dream of roses growing in the garden, or just a hi-fi playing low, or the rosy wonderful house with the darling kitchen. All those things are dreams. No. Love for you is no dream. You are not the man of my dreams. You are my life.
Anne Sexton, from a letter to Alfred Sexton written c. October 1963 (via violentwavesofemotion)