Motivational Quotes

Saddest Poem

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.

Write, for instance: The night is full of stars,
and the stars, blue, shiver in the distance.

The night wind whirls in the sky and sings.

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

On nights like this, I held her in my arms. I kissed her so many times under the infinite sky.

She loved me, sometimes I loved her.
How could I not have loved her large, still eyes?

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.
To think I don't have her. To feel that I've lost her.

To hear the immense night, more immense without her.
And the poem falls to the soul as dew to grass.

What does it matter that my love couldn't keep her.
The night is full of stars and she is not with me.

That's all. Far away, someone sings. Far away.
My soul is lost without her.

As if to bring her near, my eyes search for her.
My heart searches for her and she is not with me.

The same night that whitens the same trees.
We, we who were, we are the same no longer.

I no longer love her, true, but how much I loved her.
My voice searched the wind to touch her ear.

Someone else's. She will be someone else's. As she once
belonged to my kisses.
Her voice, her light body. Her infinite eyes.

I no longer love her, true, but perhaps I love her.
Love is so short and oblivion so long.

Because on nights like this I held her in my arms,
my soul is lost without her.

Although this may be the last pain she causes me,
and this may be the last poem I write for her.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Real love stories never have endings.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

The only victory over love is flight.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

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