
Source: The Woman Destroyed
Source: Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature
Source: The Woman Destroyed
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.
Quoted, This Side of Paradise (1920)
“Thank God for youth; there will always be love.”
Attributed
Source: July 1968, referring to the Lennebergwald (Lenneberg Forest) and youthful hikers, Mainz, Germany.
“Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
“Crabbed age and youth cannot live together:
Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care”
The Passionate Pilgrim: A Madrigal; there is some doubt about the authorship of this.
“She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.”
Source: Tender Is the Night
Source: Baudolino (2000), Chapter 7, "Baudolino makes the Poet write love letters and poems to Beatrice"