“measureless our pure living complete love
whose doom is beauty and its fate to grow”
E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet
50
50 Poems (1940)
Armonía es puro amor, porque el amor es concierto.
Fuenteovejuna (1613), Barrildo, Act I.
“measureless our pure living complete love
whose doom is beauty and its fate to grow”
E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet
50
50 Poems (1940)
“Music means harmony, harmony means love. Love means God.”
Sidney Lanier (1842–1881) American musician, poet
Tiger Lilies a novel, Hurd & Houghton , New York 1867
“Love is the most melodious of all harmonies and the sentiment of love is innate.”
Honoré de Balzac book Physiology of Marriage
Part I, Meditation V: Of the Predestined http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Physiology_of_Marriage/Part_1/Med_5. <br class="br">Physiology of Marriage (1829) <br class="br">Context: Love is the most melodious of all harmonies and the sentiment of love is innate. Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
“Keep up the loud harmonious song,
And imitate the blest above,
In joy, and harmony, and love.”
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright
Song for St. Cecilia's Day (1692).
Context: Consecrate the place and day
To music and Cecilia.
Let no rough winds approach, nor dare
Invade the hallow'd bounds,
Nor rudely shake the tuneful air,
Nor spoil the fleeting sounds.
Nor mournful sigh nor groan be heard,
But gladness dwell on every tongue;
Whilst all, with voice and strings prepar'd,
Keep up the loud harmonious song,
And imitate the blest above,
In joy, and harmony, and love.
“To give love is true freedom; To demand love is pure slavery.”
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.”
Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace
Bk. XV, ch. 1
Source: War and Peace (1865–1867; 1869)
“The enthusiasm was based on pure love and love of what we were doing.”
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
Preface, p. xiv
2010s, 2015, Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again (2015)