“Never change when love has found its home.”
I, i, 36.
Elegies
Original
Neque assueto mutet amore torum.
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Propertius 16
Latin elegiac poet -47–-16 BCRelated quotes
“In the swirl of its pool
the home-coming salmon
has no intuition
of anything changed.”
"You Helped Give a Shape", An elegy on the death of HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
Poetry Quotes
“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
Variant: Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics (1861) Summary of Book Fourth.
2011, Remarks at a Dedication Ceremony for the Martin Luther King, Jr., National Memorial (October 2011)
“But, wait,
Oh, it's much too late
Oh, and I cannot be walking home
Until I've found my love.”
Song Carby
Sādhanā : The Realisation of Life http://www.spiritualbee.com/spiritual-book-by-tagore/ (1916)
Context: In love all the contradictions of existence merge themselves and are lost. Only in love are unity and duality not at variance. Love must be one and two at the same time.
Only love is motion and rest in one. Our heart ever changes its place till it finds love, and then it has its rest. But this rest itself is an intense form of activity where utter quiescence and unceasing energy meet at the same point in love.
In love, loss and gain are harmonised. In its balance-sheet, credit and debit accounts are in the same column, and gifts are added to gains. In this wonderful festival of creation, this great ceremony of self-sacrifice of God, the lover constantly gives himself up to gain himself in love. Indeed, love is what brings together and inseparably connects both the act of abandoning and that of receiving.
Source: Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970), Chapter 1, on the oppressors