Thursday, March 16, 2006

Love is...

He is almost a god, a man beside you,
enthralled by your talk, by your laughter.
Watching makes my heart beat fast
because, seeing little, I imagine much.
You put a fire in my cheeks.
Speech won't come. My ears ring.
Blind to all others, I sweat and I stammer.
I am a trembling thing, like grass,
an inch from dying.

So poor I've nothing to lose, I must gamble...

- Sappho
6th century BC

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Love is...

"Love suffers long and is kind;
love does not envy;
love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;
Love does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;
Love does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;
It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never fails."

- 1 Corinthians 13:4-8a

This girl posted at 12:17 AM