“It was always easier for me to love than to praise.”
Siempre me fue más fácil amar que elogiar.
Voces (1943)
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Siempre me fue más fácil amar que elogiar.
Voces (1943)
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Italian Argentinian poet 1885–1968Related quotes
“There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But, who wants easier?”
Source: New and Selected Poems, Vol. 1
“It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.”
Source: The Ordeal of Change (1963), Ch. 11: "Brotherhood"
Context: It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor. There may even be a certain antagonism between love of humanity and love of neighbor; a low capacity for getting along with those near us often goes hand in hand with a high receptivity to the idea of the brotherhood of men. About a hundred years ago a Russian landowner by the name of Petrashevsky recorded a remarkable conclusion: "Finding nothing worthy of my attachment either among women or among men, I have vowed myself to the service of mankind." He became a follower of Fourier, and installed a phalanstery on his estate. The end of the experiment was sad, but what one might perhaps have expected: the peasants — Petrashevsky's neighbors-burned the phalanstery.
Some of the worst tyrannies of our day genuinely are "vowed" to the service of mankind, yet can function only by pitting neighbor against neighbor. The all-seeing eye of a totalitarian regime is usually the watchful eye of the next-door neighbor. In a Communist state love of neighbor may be classed as counter-revolutionary.
“It is easier to mend neglect than to quicken love.”
Facilius enim neglegentia emendari potest quam amor nasci.
Letter 7
Letters
“Power, like love, is easier to experience than to define or measure.”
Source: Understanding International Conflicts: An Introduction to Theory and History (6th ed., 2006), Chapter 3, Balance of Power and World War I, p. 60.
Sesame and Lilies, lecture I: Sesame. Of King's Treasuries, section 3 (1864-1865)
“The scar of fire, the dint of steel,
Are easier than Love's wounds to heal.”
Canto II
The Troubadour (1825)
“Byron says that it is easier to die for the woman one loves than to live with her.”
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Loving