Posted by: Andrea Manfrè
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Love)
We were together, I forget the rest.
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We were together, I forget the rest.
Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs;
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes;
Being vexed, a sea nourished with loving tears.
What is it else? A madness most discreet,
A choking gall, and a preserving sweet.
If someone loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars.
Love is the wisest of madness, able to suppress bitterness, sweetness able to heal.
With your image and your love, though absent, you are present every hour. Because you can't go away over the limit of my thoughts, and I am with them every hour, and they are with you.
What angel wakes me from my
flowery bed?
I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again:
Mine ear is much enamour'd of thy note;
So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape;
And thy fair virtue's force perforce doth move me
On the first view to say, to swear, I love thee.
It's easy to understand that someone in the world awaits you, whether it's in the middle of the desert or in some great city. And when two such people encounter each other, and their eyes meet, the past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every person in the world. Without such love, one's dreams would have no meaning.
You have brought me to a point where I don't know what I'm doing, I am inebriated by your words, your looks, from you entirely and I am ready for anything.
You and me are the same thing: I can't hurt you without hurting myself.
And love looked at time and laughed, because he knew he didn't need him. He pretended to die for a day, and to blossom again in the evening, lawlessly. He fell asleep in a corner of the heart for a non existant time. He ran away without going away, it came back without having left, time died and he remained.