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.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Every man loves what he is good at.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

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.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

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.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

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

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

We live in the world when we love it.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

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.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Love's reason's without reason.

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