“we need more of it.” by weither,
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“Love at first sight is easy to understand; it’s when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.”
– Amy Bloom
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
– Anaïs Nin
Sonneto XXIV
Amor, amor, las nubes a la torre del cielo
subieron como triunfantes lavanderas,
y todo ardió en azul, todo fue estrella:
el mar, la nave, el dÃa se desterraron juntos.Ven a ver los cerezos del agua constelada
y la clave redonda del rápido universo,
ven a tocar el fuego del azul instantáneo,
ven antes de que sus pétalos se consuman.No hay aquà sino luz, cantidades, racimos,
espacio abierto por las virtudes del viento
hasta entregar los últimos secretos de la espuma.Y entre tantos azules celestes, sumergidos,
se pierden nuestros ojos adivinando apenas
los poderes del aire, las llaves submarinas.***
Sonnet XXIV
Love, love, the clouds went up to the tower of the sky
like triumphant washerwomen,
and it all glowed blue, all like a single star,
the sea, the ship,the day were all exiled together.Come see the cherries of the water in the weather,
the round key to the universe,which is so quick:
come touch the fire of this momentary blue,
before its petals wither.There’s nothing here but light,quantities, clusters,
space opened by the graces of the wind
till it gives up the final secret of the foam.Among so many blues-heavenly blues, sunken blues-
our eyes are a little confused:
they can hardly divine the powers of the air, the keys to the secrets in the sea.– Pablo Neruda
And some more love sonnets XXIV:
by
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Samuel Daniel
- Mary Darby Robinson
- Michael Drayton
- Louise Labé
- William Shakespeare
- Edmund Spenser
- Sir Philip Sydney
(Click me! I am a song!)
“Love of the Heart Divine”
by Chris de Burgh
What better way to conclude an advent calendar than with love?
No matter which holidays you are celebrating,
or if you are celebrating anything at all,
I wish all of you lots of love these days.
As the title of today’s picture says: “We need more of it.”