Capable of Love

The story of a love is not important – what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. 

M. Hirschfield

Music

If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.

William Shakespeare from Twelfth Night (I, i,1-3)

Loved

I hold it true, whate’er befall
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
‘Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Unwrought

If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Except for love’s sake only. Do not say,
I love her for her smile… her look… her way
Of speaking gently… for a trick of thought
That falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought
A sense of pleasant ease on such a day-
For these things in themselves, Beloved, may
Be changed, or change for thee-and love so wrought,
May be unwrought so.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnets from the Portuguese, Sonnet 14

Heart

“I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at.”

William Shakespeare

Wild Desire

O lyric love, half angel
and half bird,
And all a wonder and a
wild desire ! 

 Robert Browning

Crooked

You see through love, and that
deludes your sight,
As what is straight seems
crooked through the water.

John Dryden (1631-1700)

Forgotten

The breaths are air and they go to the air!
The tears are water and they go into the sea!
Tell me women: When love gets forgotten?
And do you know where it goes?

Gustavo Adolfo Becquer

A Groovy Kind of Love

When I’m feeling blue
All I have to do
Is take a look at you
And then I’m not so blue
Wouldn’t you agree, baby, you and me, we got a groovy kind of love.

Wayne Fontana

What Love is

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (New International Version)