neruda says it best

[tyarky]

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz

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[hiraya]

Love has no other desire but to fulfil itself.

But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:

To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.

To know the pain of too much tenderness.

To be wounded by your own understanding of love;

And to bleed willingly and joyfully.

To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;

To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy;

To return home at eventide with gratitude;

And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.

the prophet

[tyarky]

i like gibran, too...
i especially like the chapter on marriage and on children...

*sigh*