Love…
… IS! That says what I feel clearer than any quantity of words can.
Brazilian lyricist and novelist Pablo Coelho
Regardless of whether we love
once,
twice,
or
a dozen times
in our life,
we always face a brand-new situation.
Love can send us to hell or paradise,
but it always takes us somewhere.
We simply have to accept it,
because it is what nourishes our existence…
Love…
…and its true meaning only now do I get first real glimpses of. Before I mistook neediness, wanting, fantasy, longing, yearning and craving to be love when actually such is its opposite. As children learn, love’s meaning is slowly being revealed to us.
English novelist, poet, playwright and painter D. H. Lawrence
Those that go
searching for love,
only manifest
their own loveless-ness.
And the loveless
never find love,
only the loving find love.
And they never
have to seek for it.
Love…
…brings hope into one’s heart that is rooted in uncertainty and bound by possibility. The fire in love’s risk dampened by understanding sculpts a heart quietly inflamed.
Taken from “Love Plain and Simple” by Nicole
I get butterflies,
every time,
You look at me,
touch me,
talk to me.
Big cheesy smiles across my face,
You fill that empty place,
Deep in my heart,
Where it has been lonely
for such a long while…
Love…
…is a simple thing fully understood by no human of any time. It is the third need of the body: water, food and love. It arrives when it wishes and departs unpredictably. Love is both an affliction and a blessing; pleasure and pain spun into extravagant joy.
Pablo Neruda, Sonnet 12, translated by Stephen Tapscott
Oh, love is
a journey with
water and stars,
with drowning air
and storms of flour;
love is
a clash of lightnings,
two bodies subdued
by one honey.
Love…
…from a simple view is nothing in particular, but everything in general. It is a delicate spice that flavors every part of living: sadness or happiness, joy or grief, pleasure or pain, delight or fear. Love makes the good better and the bad easier to bear.
Indonesian College Student Angel Flonis Harefa
There will always
be a reason
why you meet people.
Either you need them
to change your life
or you’re the one
that will
change theirs.
Love…
…is many things: the invitations you give me even when I can’t accept; the caring thoughts you write that seem to come when I need them most; the sweetness felt when we hug; and gratitude for your kindness I feel but can’t fully express.
From “Beautiful Dreamer” by Stephen Foster
Beautiful dreamer,
wake unto me,
Starlight
and
dewdrops
are waiting for thee;
Sounds
of the rude world
heard in the day,
Lull’d by the moonlight
have all pass’d a way!
Love…
…IS a glance that freezes our gaze momentarily on one other; a sentence unfinished but completely understood by both; a quick kiss that resonates long after; the warmth of a hug that cools slowly. Such things find their meaning between two hearts enlivened.
From XVII of “100 Love Sonnets” by Chilean poet Pablo Neruda
I do not love you
as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations
the fire shoots off.
I love you without knowing how,
or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly,
without complexities or pride.
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