
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
“We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.”
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
Twitter post, https://twitter.com/Ocasio2018/status/1077776366450429958 (25 December 2018)
Twitter Quotes (2018)
“Let us speak of our madness. We are always being called mad.”
Yea and Nay : A series of lectures and counter-lectures given at the London school of economics in aid of the hospitals of London (1923) edited by C David Stelling, Section IV, Poetry and Modern Poetry
Context: Let us speak of our madness. We are always being called mad. If we are mad — we and our brothers in America who are walking hand in hand with us in the vanguard of progress — at least we are mad in company with most of our great predecessors and all the most intelligent foreigners. Beethoven, Schumann, and Wagner, Shelley, Blake, Keats, Coleridge, Wordsworth were all mad in turn. We shall be proud to join them in the Asylum to which they are now consigned.
“We loved, sir — used to meet:
How sad and bad and mad it was —
But then, how it was sweet!”
"Confessions", line 34 (1864).
By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Context: Love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation. Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. We simply have to accept it, because it is what nourishes our existence. If we reject it, we die of hunger, because we lack the courage to reach out a hand and pluck the fruit from the branches of the tree of life. We have to take love where we find it, even if it means hours, days, weeks of disappointment and sadness.
The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us.
And to save us.
Source: Leonard Cohen: Poems and Songs
“We love to live a simple life…we simply love the life we live though some would say its hard.”
"Simple Life"
A Picnic of Poems in Allah's Green Garden (2011)