I am Lonely for my Friends²
I would rather Walk with a Friend
In the Dark than Alone in the Light³
The Name you are Called by means Friend⁴
I Gain from Heav’n (‘tis all I Wish’d) a Friend⁵
In a Dream I see a new City of Friends – nothing
Is greater there than the quality of Robust Love, it
Leads the rest: it is seen every hour in the Actions
Of the men of that city, in all their Looks & Words⁶
True Friends Leave Footprints in your Heart⁷
Two Names of Friendship, but one Star –
Each Stylèd by their end a Copy of their
Friend – Friendship indeed is Written,
Not in Words, and with the Heart⁸
The Bird: a Nest – the Spider:
A Web – People: Friendship⁹
Friends in the Larger Sense¹⁰
¹ Walter Benjamin tr. Esther Leslie, Franz Hessel, Secret Berlin
² Naomi Shihab Nye, Moon Over Gaza
³ Helen Keller
⁴ Mitta tr. Charles Hallisey, Therīgāthā
⁵ Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard
⁶ Walt Whitman, I Dream’d in a Dream
⁷ Eleanor Roosevelt
⁸ Ben Jonson, A Part of an Ode
⁹ William Blake, Proverbs of Hell
¹⁰ Primo Levi tr. Raymond Rosenthal, To My Friends