A Wee Pause From Romantic Expressions of "Love"
In our tutorial this past week, the word "Agape" was noted in the discussion about love and love poetry. Although not all is poetry, I have posted here a small collection of some ideas that have been expressed on the subject of Love:
"Agape is disinterested love....Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people, or any qualities people possess. It begins by loving others for their sakes...Therefore, agape makes no distinction between friend and enemy; it is directed toward both."
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
We must love one another or die.
"September 1, 1939" (poem) 8, 1940
W. H. Auden (1907-1973)
Love to faults is always blind,
Always is to joy inclin'd,
Lawless, wing'd, and unconfin'd,
And Breaks all chains from every mind.
William Blake (1757-1827)
"Poems and Fragments from the Note-Book"
"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal."
Paul (A.D. 1st Century)
I Corinthians 13:1
Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these
All things are subject but eternal Love.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
"Prometheus Unbound" 2.4.119, 1820
That Love is all there is,
Is all we know of Love.
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
"That Love is all there is" undated
"Love never claims, it ever gives."
Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)
"In Young India" 9 July 1925
To wait an Hour--is long--
If Love be just beyond--
To wait Eternity--is short--
If Love reward the end--
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
"To wait an Hour--is long" 1863?
"Agape is disinterested love....Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people, or any qualities people possess. It begins by loving others for their sakes...Therefore, agape makes no distinction between friend and enemy; it is directed toward both."
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
We must love one another or die.
"September 1, 1939" (poem) 8, 1940
W. H. Auden (1907-1973)
Love to faults is always blind,
Always is to joy inclin'd,
Lawless, wing'd, and unconfin'd,
And Breaks all chains from every mind.
William Blake (1757-1827)
"Poems and Fragments from the Note-Book"
"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal."
Paul (A.D. 1st Century)
I Corinthians 13:1
Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these
All things are subject but eternal Love.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
"Prometheus Unbound" 2.4.119, 1820
That Love is all there is,
Is all we know of Love.
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
"That Love is all there is" undated
"Love never claims, it ever gives."
Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)
"In Young India" 9 July 1925
To wait an Hour--is long--
If Love be just beyond--
To wait Eternity--is short--
If Love reward the end--
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
"To wait an Hour--is long" 1863?
posted by maggiesong at 9:38 PM
2 Comments:
Ashley. Thank you for your kind comment. The posting was just put together from an idea I had that wondered what it would be like to gather a small sampling of things said about love, and be able to see them in a "pastiche" of sorts. If I had the knowledge of how to create something pretty graphically, as so many in this course appear to be able to do, I would have liked to have done that, but I'm afraid this had to look rather plain.
Sonia...thank you for the comment. I think yes, there is a correlation between the way something is expressed and the depth, or lack of depth in the meaning behind it. When life has to be rushed continually, and when in the rushing, people become more and more isolated from each other, then we wonder what is really going on here anyway.
Technology makes it possible to throw words into the air at a phenomenal speed - people can choose to live 24/7 with words being sung or spoken just to keep the silence at bay. Silence seems to be the great enemy of people caught up in living in an atmosphere of noise. A fellow I know told me that he leaves his radio on all night as he sleeps. I cannot fathom how this could be anything but a horrid way to choose to live.
With regard to Gandhi's expression of love existing or not existing in the world today, my response to your question must be yes.
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