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"I will be walking in the middle of your soul." - Oklahoma Cherokee love incantation
“The greatest things in life are unseen that's why we close our eyes to... kiss and dream.” - Author Unknown
"If you love something... set it free. - Author Unknown
"The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humour or irony pitched in exactly the same key." - Edith Wharton “We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just leave it in the cupboard and think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it, to really look after it and nurture it." - John Lennon
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see each other whole against the sky. - Rainer Maria Rilke
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. - Henry Drummond
All who joy would win Must share it, - Happiness was born a Twin - Lord Byron: Don Juan
Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy. -Ralph Connor
I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. - William Butler Yeats
Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness. —Oliver Wendell Holmes
Two such as you with such a master speed Cannot be parted nor swept away From one another once you are agreed That life is only life forevermore Together wing to wing and oar to oar. - Robert Frost
“It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.”
"And when one of them meets with his other half, the actual half of himself, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight even for a moment." - Plato
“This day I will marry my friend, the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.” - Author Unknown
“Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.” - Margaret Fuller
“Even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.” - Kahlil Gibran
“Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbours as being very much.” - Zola Neale Hurston
“You can wish you were in love, but you have to wait until the object of your affection knocks on your door.” - Angelica Huston
“True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.” - Francois De La Rochefoucauld
“Love just doesn’t sit there, like a stone, it has to made, like bread; re-made all the time, made new.” - Ursula K. Le Guin
“How alike are the groans of love to those of the dying.” - Malcolm Lowry
“How do you know Love has gone? If you said you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police yet—it’s gone.” - Marlene Dietrich
“If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.” - Katherine Mansfield
“Love is not love until love’s vulnerable.” - Theodore Roethke
“Those who have the courage to love should have the courage to suffer.” - Anthony Trollope
“ The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.” - W. Somerset Maugham
“I have learned not to worry about love, but to honor its coming with all my heart.” - Alice Walker
“Hatred paralyses life; love releases it. Hate confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hated darkens life; love illumines it.” - Martin Luther King, JR.
A true conception of relation of the sexes will not admit of conqueror and conquered; it knows of but one great thing; to give of one’s self boundlessly, in order to find one’s richer, deeper, better.” - Emma Goldman
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‘Never pain to tell thy love’ By William Blake
Never pain to tell they love, Love that never told can be; For the gentle wind does move Silently, invisibly.
I told my love, I told my love. I told her all my heart; Trembling, cold in ghastly fears - Ah, she doth depart.
Soon as she was gone from me A traveller came by Silently, invisibly - O, was no deny. |
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"We love only that which we do not own entirely." - M. Proust
"Love just doesn't sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, re-made all the time, made new." - Ursula Le Guin
The warmth of another's eyes, the fresh scent of rain on a hot summer's eve ? Moments like these renew in us a heartfelt appreciation for life.
This done, he took the bride about the neck, And kiss’d her lips with such a clamorous smack, That, at the parting, all the church did echo.
- Shakespeare
How did the party go in Portman Square? I cannot tell you; Juliet was not there.
And how did Lady Gaster’s party go? Juliet was next me and I do not know. - Hilaire Belloc
“Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else. “ - Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883 - 1955)
"Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible." - Thomas à Kempis
“Love is a great beautifier.” - Louise May Alcott
“Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.” - Diane Arbus
“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.” - Jorge Louis Bourges
“When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.” - Elizabeth Bowen
“The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.” - Lawrence Durrell
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A SAILORS” VALENTINE
The picture on the cardboard box Was colourful with varied shells That blossomed into shapes atop A vase composed of them as well — And promised that we might combine Those pieces in a Valentine.
The task seemed hopeless for a week, So like in form and hue were they — Those thousand jigsaw fragments pieced Across the table as we framed The borders with the whole in mind, To build our Sailors’ Valentine.
For so it seemed to us, and still A prudent way to deal with things Appears, that if we only built The outer pieces in a ring About the empty space, we’d find The clue to shape our Valentine.
What lonely seamen, far from home, Collected on each foreign shore Sea shells cast up like shipwrecks thrown Upon the mercies of the Lord, Assembling thus in their free time Such gifts to please their Valentines? |
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From Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems by Alice Walker
I have learned not to worry about love; but to honour its coming with all my heart. To examine the dark mysteries of the blood with headless heed and swirl, to know the rush of feelings swift and flowing as water. The source appears to be some inexhaustible spring within our twin and triple selves: the new face I turn up to you no one else on earth has ever seen. |
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From swaying crow’s nest, staring hard Across the sea’s relentless foam For signs of hope upon the far Horizon—sweethearts, friends and home- A sailor learns to bide his time: For patience molds his Valentine.
Then one by one and two by two, As we relaxed our straining heads, The fractured bits began to fuse, And out of chaos soon was wed Our loves together, in designs That formed a Sailors’ Valentine.
But now this puzzle which has seen Its purpose, and beguiled the hours With light and pleasant industry, Lies disassembled, with its flowers’ Petals to heap resigned: Alas, our shattered Valentine!
Yet one more puzzle do we piece, And then another, till the one That best reveals the Love we see We can conjoin and them be done— Life’s cast-off shells to leave behind: Our mystic Sailors’ Valentine.
Lee Evans © 2009 |
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