
Stanza 7.
The Definition of Love (1650-1652)
To Lucasta: Going Beyond the Seas, st. 3.
Lucasta (1649)
Stanza 7.
The Definition of Love (1650-1652)
"The Green Door" http://books.google.com/books?id=dKk_AAAAYAAJ&q=%22The+true+adventurer+goes+forth+aimless+and+uncalculating+to+meet+and+greet+unknown+fate+A+fine+example+was+the+Prodigal+Son+when+he+started+back+home%22&pg=PA151#v=onepage
The Four Million (1906)
“Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other.”
March 17, 2008, allegedly misspeaking about her 1996 trip to Bosnia. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/24/eveningnews/main3964921.shtml
Presidential campaign (January 20, 2007 – 2008)
“There's all kinds of love in the world, and not all of it looks like the stuff in greeting cards.”
Source: Best Friends Forever
“I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.”
Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell
Source: White Teeth (2000)
Context: You hear girls in the toilets of clubs saying, 'Yeah, he fucked off and left me. He just couldn't deal with love. He was too fucked up to know how to love me.' Now how did that happen? What was it about this unlovable century that convinced us we were, despite everything, eminently lovable as a people, as a species? What made us think that anyone who fails to love us is damaged, lacking, malfunctioning in some way? And particularly if they replace us with a god, or a weeping madonna, or the face of Christ in a ciabatta roll—then we call them crazy. Deluded. Regressive. We are so convinced of the goodness of ourselves, and the goodness of our love, we cannot bear to believe that there might be something more worthy of love than us, more worthy of worship. Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.
“If I should meet thee
After long years
How should I greet thee?
With silence and tears.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Kessinger Publishing (2005).
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