Tonight I can write the saddest lines.

Write, for example, 'The night is starry
and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance.'

The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

Through nights like this one I held her in my arms.
I kissed her again and again under the endless sky.

She loved me, sometimes I loved her too.
How could one not have loved her great still eyes.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her.

To hear the immense night, still more immense without her.
And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture.

What does it matter that my love could not keep her.
The night is starry and she is not with me.

This is all. In the distance someone is singing. In the distance.
My soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.

My sight tries to find her as though to bring her closer.
My heart looks for her, and she is not with me.

The same night whitening the same trees.
We, of that time, are no longer the same.

I no longer love her, that's certain, but how I loved her.
My voice tried to find the wind to touch her hearing.

Another's. She will be another's. As she was before my kisses.
Her voice, her bright body. Her infinite eyes.

I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her.
Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

Because through nights like this one I held her in my arms
my soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.

Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer
and these the last verses that I write for her.


Pablo Neruda

"Love is not blind - it sees more, not less.  But because it sees more, it is willing to see less."  Rabbi Julius Gordon

"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." Madonna

"When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade.  Each wins all."  Lois McMaster Bujold

"Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself."  Jean Anouilh

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contract of two chemical substances:  if there is any reaction, both are transformed."  Carl Jung

"Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command." Alan Watts

“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you never can tell.” Joan Crwford

“If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he and I was I.” Michele de Montaigne

Do not marry a person that you know that you can live with; only marry someone that you cannot live without.

“Create a signal only your lover knows so you can show him you love him across a crowded room.”

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus a day so I never have to live without you.”

“You don’t know about real loss. Cause that only occurs when you love something more than you love yourself. I doubt you’ve ever dared to love anybody that much.” Good Will Hunting

“We are never so defenseless as when we love.”

What breaks your heart? Has your heart been broken? Tell me...when has your heart been broken?

“The trouble with your face is that it’s ruining me for other faces. It’s making me rethink every face I’ve ever liked” Love Walked In

“A soul mate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks…Our soul mate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we’re two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we’ve found the right person. Our soul mate is the one who makes life come to life.” Richard Bach

“But you can’t tell me what it feels like to wake up next to a woman and feel truly happy…you’ve never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable. Known someone that could level you with her eyes. Feel like God put an angel on Earth just for you; could rescue you from the depths of Hell. And you wouldn’t know what it’s like to be her angel. To have that love for her be there forever. Through anything.” Good Will Hunting

“A man should kiss his wife’s navel every day.” Nell Kimball

“So much of me is you I don’t know just who I am…I gave you my soul. I gave you control of me. Can’t you just believe ‘you are my everything?’” Stabbing Westwad