4 posts tagged “love”

that everything I say to you, everything I ask, is trite, fragile, irrelevant -- merely an excuse for words to pass between us.

French philosopher Andre Gorz and his terminally ill wife committed joint suicide in September 2007. This is a letter he wrote her before that. I read it through to the end and found that I just couldn't hold back the tears. It is an unbelievably exquisite expression of love and commitment.

My favourite para:
You’ve just turned 82. You are still beautiful, graceful and desirable. We’ve lived together now for 58 years and I love you more than ever. Lately I’ve fallen in love with you all over again and I once more carry inside me a gnawing emptiness that can only be filled by your body snuggled up against mine.

It's enough to make even the hardest heart melt.

"...Ibn Arabi's notion that love is the ability to make the invisible visible and the desire always to feel the invisible in one's midst."

- Orhan Pamuk, My Name is Red

But these maneuverings to avoid
The touching of hands,
These shifts to keep the eyes employed
On objects more or less neutral
(As honor, for the time being, commands)
Will hardly prevent their downfall.

Stronger medicines are needed.
Already they find
None of their stratagems have succeeded,
Nor would have, no,
Not had their eyes been stricken blind,
Hands cut off at the elbow.

- Donald Justice (1964)

For those who understand.