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February 14, 2006
Happy Valentine's Day!
Being a quote collector (and seeing as my tax class is just deadly this morning), I’ll share a couple of my favorite quotations about love (feel free to contribute yours!):
“Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it…. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.” - Erica Jong
“We love only that which we do not own entirely.” - Proust
“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.” - Thomas Merton
Posted by alweiss at February 14, 2006 09:10 AM
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Shakespeare's Sonnet 116! Although I don't know that this will come out formatted:
Let me not to the marriage of true minds/
Admit impediments. Love is not love/
Which alters when it alteration finds,/
Or bends with the remover to remove:/
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark/
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;/
It is the star to every wandering bark,/
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken./
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks/
Within his bending sickle's compass come:/
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,/
But bears it out even to the edge of doom./
If this be error and upon me proved,/
I never writ, nor no man ever loved./
Posted by: Elizabeth at February 14, 2006 04:05 PM
Good one, Eliz! Happy V-Day!
Posted by: alweiss at February 14, 2006 05:41 PM